Proof that God is evil? Easily and quickly controverted. [View all]

[guillaumeb]

Last edited Wed Dec 21, 2016, 06:35 PM - Edit history (1)

There is a recent post here to the effect that God is evil. In fact, the poster goes so far as to say that it is incontrovertible that God is in fact evil because he does not follow the Golden Rule.

But the point of this post is that the poster initially posited that the mere presence of evil, also defined variously in the thread as "bad things happening", or the presence of illness, is incontrovertible proof that a god cannot exist.

According to the few dictionaries that I used as a source, incontrovertible means:

Incontrovertible evidence is a colloquial term for evidence introduced to prove a fact that is supposed to be so conclusive that there can be no other truth as to the matter; evidence so strong it overpowers contrary evidence, directing a fact-finder to a specific and certain conclusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incontrovertible_evidence

If it were in fact, incontrovertible, there would have been no serious discussion on the merits of the proposition because it would be incontrovertible. So the very fact that there is much argument on the merit of this post is incontrovertible proof that the post is fallacious.

I cannot see any possible controversy arising out of my statement of an incontrovertible fact.

Edited to add:
Obviously some people do believe that the existence of random occurrences in a dynamic universe constitutes proof that a deity must be evil.

And many people argue that there is no deity, no Creator. Is the outcome to this non-theistic belief a conclusion that the universe itself is evil?