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Control-Z

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17. You know how
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:56 PM
Nov 2012

ridiculous your argument is. Everything good is gawd's doing. Everything bad is man's (in the name of the wrong god). Please stop.

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
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