Re: Would you like to be fried with that?
There are no gods. We have arisen out of nothing, we are doomed to oblivion.
Well that's true at least, well done for realising!
What's to prevent The Purge (yes, the movie series) from becoming reality?
Lot's - I have answered that one at some length elsewhere in this thread, but your next one is even easier:
* God with a capital G in this context: the immaterial, omnipotent, omnipresent, benevolent being who created existence, of these attributes only.
The omnipresent, omnipotent benevolent being that threatens to cast people who don't lick his arse into never-ending fire and agony? Who through an accident of birth one might, or might not have heard of? Who groups of humans use as justification for kiling and torturing others, even though he is benevolent and omnipotent? Who's Holy books variously demand and describe indiscriminate genocide of whole groups of people who he doesn't like? Who describes women as chattel and supports the keeping of slaves? The stoning of non-virgins on their wedding night, or of kids who disobey their parents. The cutting off of hands? Or feet? The rape of captives?
The omnipotent fella that allows kids to die of luekemia, or bone cancer, or eye cancer, or typhus, cholera, or umpteen dreadful, hideous maladies because their parents are poor. Who allows people to die at random through murder, accidents, AIDS, starvation, leprosy. He whol allows the first and second world wars, the Einszattsgrupen and the murder of the Jews. The omnipotent and benevolent fella that is comfortable with all that, and if you still don't believe in him will torture you forever.
And before you say that you don't believe in that version of God, your's is nice and peaceful and lovely. Well many, if not most people's God is like that tyrant described above. Your's is massaged with your twentieth century morals and views of equality and pacifism. And to top it all off how do we know your's is right and the God of 15th Century Spain, or ISIS, or the Genocidal God of the Old Testament doesn't apply any more? We take your word for it I suppose? Seems legit.
Epicurus is again pertinent here: Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
