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To: Brumar89 who wrote (43924)	12/11/2013 5:28:34 PM
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Who's arguing, nothing but love here. But you are a primate, would monkey like a bananna? (lots of good elements, very nourishing) All the starving, terrified children, forced to undure all these centuries of misery in their innocence, all is explained away because its only temporal? But this unseen, unheard from "deadbeat father" is left off the hook because you think he offers an imaginary heaven afterwords? (Thats a real logical proof all right) You are truely daffy loons to believe this, so far gone you have not the slightest grasp of reality, people blow up marketplaces,weddings & twin towers over this looney~tuned primitive whoreshit. You lose, sorry, it doesnt wash, go preach somewhere else. The argument from evil is so rock solid & in your face at every turn, look at how you whine?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (43924)	12/11/2013 5:47:25 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Though a theodicy may harmonize God with the existence of evil, it does so at the cost of nullifying morality. This is because most theodicies assume that whatever evil there is exists because it is required for the sake of some greater good. But if an evil is necessary because it secures a greater good, then it appears we humans have no duty to prevent it, for in doing so we would also prevent the greater good for which the evil is required. Even worse, it seems that any action can be rationalized, as if one succeeds in performing it, then God has permitted it, and so it must be for the greater good. From this line of thought one may conclude that, as these conclusions violate our basic moral intuitions, no greater good theodicy is true, and God does not exist. Alternatively, one may point out that greater good theodicies lead us to see every conceivable state of affairs as compatible with the existence of God, and in that case the notion of God's goodness is rendered meaningless. "To every man is given the key to Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell."