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cbayer

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15. My answer to genocide and war? Not at all.

Reply to Control-Z (Reply #14)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:49 PM

Nov 2012

I think it is within the scope of responsibility of humans to stop genocide and war. We cause it and we should fix it. Conceding that to an unknown or unknowable deity is just shirking that responsibility.

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Just wondering, [View all] uriel1972 Nov 2012 OP

What do you think? cbayer Nov 2012 #1

I believe that if injustice exists in the world uriel1972 Nov 2012 #5

So you would expect perfection, an Eden, so to speak, from a creator? cbayer Nov 2012 #6

Not neccessarily. uriel1972 Nov 2012 #8

Your reasoning only makes sense if you assume that a god could control cbayer Nov 2012 #9

The question is at the very heart of my atheism uriel1972 Nov 2012 #12

The question is at the heart of your atheism? cbayer Nov 2012 #13

I don't agree uriel1972 Nov 2012 #18

I feel that you are sincere here and not just baiting, which is refreshing. cbayer Nov 2012 #23

Thankyou uriel1972 Nov 2012 #27

Your approach makes all the difference in how the thread is going, cbayer Nov 2012 #33

Would you prefer to have a choice to do good or to have no choice? rug Nov 2012 #19

I prefer to do good uriel1972 Nov 2012 #21

So do I but the question is, would you like to have a say in the matter. rug Nov 2012 #24

I am who I am and I can't escape that uriel1972 Nov 2012 #25

The tragedy is that it's not great evil on a whim but small evils hourly. rug Nov 2012 #26

Free will is at the heart of the question you asked. okasha Nov 2012 #32

I would reject that god ............ Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #2

This question tbennett76 Nov 2012 #3

Believing in a god Control-Z Nov 2012 #4

Many do. mr blur Nov 2012 #7

No. Control-Z Nov 2012 #16

Hates and abuses you or can not/does not intervene when others hate/abuse? cbayer Nov 2012 #10

Is that your answer Control-Z Nov 2012 #14

My answer to genocide and war? Not at all. cbayer Nov 2012 #15

You know how Control-Z Nov 2012 #17

I have never made such an argument. I have never even made an argument cbayer Nov 2012 #22

This right here: Control-Z Nov 2012 #28

I would let you have the last word, but just wanted to point out that I don't cbayer Nov 2012 #29

God - if he existed - would be an ASSHOLE Taverner Nov 2012 #34

No rug Nov 2012 #11

What I get about the Chistian god Laochtine Nov 2012 #20

Arguments about free will when talking about whether god is evil or not are stupid. Evoman Nov 2012 #30

May I suggest this as a starting point BillStein Nov 2012 #31