GOD or NOT Submissions Needed
GOD or NOT #11 (Evil) will be hosted at Burdan’s Ass on Monday. I’ve been told that submissions have been very light on both sides. This is a great topic, and it’s easy to write about, so submit something. The deadline is technically today, but Buridan might be willing to accept a couple of things over the weekend to flesh out the carnival. Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on theodicy to give you a starting point…
The problem of evil arises from the supposition that a completely good deity would not have created a world containing evil, or would not permit its continued existence in the world, and that an omniscient and omnipotent god should be able to arrange the world according to his intentions. Since evil manifestly exists, either the deity intends it to exist, does not know of it, or has no power to destroy it, and is therefore not completely benevolent, omniscient, and/or omnipotent. The other possibility is that that no such deity exists.
~I AM~
March 24th, 2006 at at 12:20 pm
Problem of evil, huh? Ill see if theres anything I can submit. Not sure if I wrote about evil specifically before, but we shall see.
March 25th, 2006 at at 2:51 am
Damn…I’m very interested in hosting, but my blog is pretty new.
Oh well, during the next two months I’ll just get to know everybody. Then, by the time I host, I’ll be an old hand.
March 25th, 2006 at at 11:42 am
You know what we need ? A catchy slogan for Atheism. We need a better frame, something more marketable than “Fuck you and your Jesus fish!” Actually that’s just more of a personal motto.
Somthing like:
Atheism: Lose the Guilt.
Atheism: The Dark ages are over
Atheism will set you free
Lose your shackles! Become an Atheist
Id rather laugh with the Sinners than cry with the Saints: Atheism
Gee this is kinda fun. We need uplifting ones, not just. God Sucks. Although that does have a ring to it.
Any ideas?
March 26th, 2006 at at 4:50 pm
…God is a Dick?
March 26th, 2006 at at 11:20 pm
I submit that there is no generic evil. It is rather the resulting judgement of an observer.
One who, through the application of scientific thought or superstition, has labeled the act or condition damaging or counter productive to his own chosen belief system. An exception to this is the resulting judgement made from a purely scientific thought process and based on scientific axiom.
Obviously an act or condition can be adjudged “evil” so long as no absolute evil is implied.
The same holds true of absolute good. The two should only be used to describe what is more or less except able in the observers view of the world.
Within the dualistic dynamics of religion we find a need for these fictitious absolutes.
In order to address the issue of “god or not” no god theory has ever been useful in predicting what we are learning through scientific investigation. Nor has any god theory brought man kind into intellectual or social maturation. Men created religions and men brought to religion the good the bad and the ugly.
In summary there is no need for a god theory and a great need for lucid thought.
Psychonomist