Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16363)	2/20/2004 4:43:29 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

No I believe I address the argument. It is clear to me that we are responsible. I'm going to assume that is clear to you as well. But let's say there is a god. How would you propose that we have free will yet not be capable of any negative consequences for our choices? Because it is pretty clear we impose our will in a great many negative ways. Maybe you are saying that there cannot be a god unless god is as we say. Well, that wouldn't be a god other than ourselves either. I don't see how you hold god responsible for our evil. On the basis that god has allowed for the possibility that evil occur? And I don't see that exercising our will negates anything but a particular theoretical abstract of a god. I'd have to agree that that god doesn't exist. There is no god that is responsible for everything and eliminates the possibility of human free will, as we see evidenced in the Holocaust, etc. If that's the only kind of god we will have, then that god is not available. I assume your point really is that the presence of evil makes any god impossible to believe in. I don't think so.