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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2017 21:55:26 GMT
Did anyone see this? Apparently Stephen Fry is being sued for defamation for speaking thus in a TV interview in Ireland. Good grief!
I enjoyed it - he said what many of us have thought or think from time to time but quash believing that we don't know how God works, and it is a world where freewill reigns supreme, etc. After all who are we to understand and judge God's mighty plan or the complexity of the universe. Lovely to see that self-negation being turned on its head.
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Post by Ava on May 7, 2017 0:52:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 0:58:22 GMT
How ridiculous is this allegation! What he says is a clear expression of bonafide philosophical arguments that deny the existence of God. God and the problem of evil are antithetical. Students have to learn these arguments to pass exams, including students in Ireland. From the encyclopaedia of Philisophy, www.iep.utm.edu/evil-log/Logical Problem of EvilThe existence of evil and suffering in our world seems to pose a serious challenge to belief in the existence of a perfect God. If God were all-knowing, it seems that God would know about all of the horrible things that happen in our world. If God were all-powerful, God would be able to do something about all of the evil and suffering. Furthermore, if God were morally perfect, then surely God would want to do something about it. And yet we find that our world is filled with countless instances of evil and suffering. These facts about evil and suffering seem to conflict with the orthodox theist claim that there exists a perfectly good God. The challenged posed by this apparent conflict has come to be known as the problem of evil.
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Post by Ava on May 7, 2017 21:56:08 GMT
The Dark Ages linger on....... I mean, oppressive and draconian religious practices won't go away.
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