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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (13 children)

This is sorta the beginners philosophy question. There are plenty of answers, it's not the "gotcha" it appears to be. Those answers unroll into all sorts of branching other conversations but they exist.

Maybe it's because free will exists.

Maybe there's a greater purpose for what we call "evil" that results in more good.

Maybe it's a definitional thing, where "evil" to us is always going to be the most-evil existent thing so if existing evils were gone "evil" would still exist but it would consist of aggressive kitten licks or something. So "evil" can't not exist, but it's not because God can't get rid of what we call "evil" now.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Could god make a butt plug so big his ass couldn’t take it?

Or more PG, could god make a burrito so hot he couldn’t eat it?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which god was he talking about anyway ? They had thousands of the fuckers at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was a guy who assumed the existence of Platonic solids. He clearly had a streak of monotheism in him.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Or maybe he’s just a cunt, what with all the murdering people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I know this is a circle-jerk meme, but I'mma pitch my two cents anyway.

If we are talking about the Abrahamic god... "he" is both good and evil. So no; to be omnipotent one must also be responsible for evil. Kinda duh.

I could go on, but that right there is pretty much all that needs to be said regarding that god in particular. Good and Evil are man-made concepts, and subjective as all hell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then isn't it wrong of the Abrahamic God to ask humans to do good if good is subjective anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good and Evil are man-made concepts, and subjective as all hell.

Gotta get all D&D True Neutral Druidic on this and recognize life as a cycle. The wolf eats the lamb, the lamb eats the grass, the grass eats the bodies of them both. What is good here? What is evil?

To eliminate "evil" one must do far worse things than murder. One must assert one's will over the very foundations of nature itself.

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