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  • spacemanspiff@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I prefer this quote because, IMHO, a god does not exist…

    “Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?”

    -Epicurus

    • Staark@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

      This part is quite scary when you think about it. If he did exist, and was able and willing to help, but he didn’t consider anything the world was doing as even a blip on his radar, what horrors are yet to come?

    • charliespider@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m a hard core atheist but those kinds of sayings always bug me as just being semantic word play. They essentially equate a higher being’s power with the ability to do something that is impossible simply based on the definitions of the words themselves.

      Can god create a square that’s a circle?
      No?
      Must not be a god then!

      Just silly. There’s endless valid arguments against the existence of gods without having to resort to linguistic trickery.