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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Assuming Christianity and that the lore was real there's more fundamental questions.

Can you perceive the universe accurately and fully? If good and evil exist, are you accurately observing them?

If this world is like an illusion and eternity will be in heaven or hell, what does it mean to do good or evil here on earth? You commit evil and it will propel you towards hell, the"real", while the people who suffer from your evil fare better here in the "illusion." It's like evil is when someone kills their own soul, and has less to do with the literal consequences here in this universe.

Related the the first question, what about the fact that their god is literally defined as good and is essentially an Eldritch being that exists within the very unfolding of history itself? Stepping into this lore and trying to trap this thing with a simple, elegant rhetorical cage is like... trying to catch Cthulhu with a cage.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you guys pray to me, I promise to notice you and pay attention. Which is more than you can say for any god.

(You have to do it out loud and in front of me though.)

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[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If anyone actually cares, this is the muslim answer to how a good God can allow evil and why humanity was created with all its flaws

It's an important question and worth taking the time to watch the video

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's an important question

Only to the mentally ill who need cognitive dissonance to keep on keeping on

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (18 children)

Well the theological explanation is that what we consider evil or suffering is just a necessary function of God's world.

Would a world truly without any sort of hardship or strife be worth living in?

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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Able and willing are fine and dandy until you have free will to deal with. You can tell people the right way to be all day, but in the end you gotta come down and throw some bitches around like rag dolls. We all assume god has the ability to do whatever they want, but we never think they have rules they are forced to exist by. Rules that keep the very fabric of existence from unraveling. In short, if god is capable of being omnipresent, and omnipotent, then our ability to express free will is in danger because they could just force us to be whomever they choose, with how things are setup it makes a lot more sense gods a smoker, drinker, pissed off, and being forced to fix this shit manually while a ton of shit heads keep trying to force everything in the wrong direction. Gods an admin in a free will zone, and has specific abilities they can rely on to resolve issues, but it can take time like cleaning up the streets of rancid goulash vendors. But really, that implies we are all just visiting a zone, and once we leave it gods not god, just an admin in a zone we are no longer a part of.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Safety is that which protects but does not bind

Tyranny is that which binds but does not protect

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