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Athiests: read "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel

It's a thoroughly researched and methodically logical examin...
narrow-minded theater stage
  04/05/09
Mike, the word is "atheist" and not "athiest....
chartreuse lay
  04/05/09
No. Thanks for asking though. That was thoughful.
rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug
  04/05/09
Sounds just like me 10 years ago. Ignorance is bliss, I gues...
narrow-minded theater stage
  04/05/09
That right, the whole bowl of dicks.
rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug
  04/05/09
I like you as a poster.
vibrant amethyst yarmulke death wish
  04/05/09
That book has been refuted many times, idiot.
Sable useless brakes
  04/05/09
Convincing.
narrow-minded theater stage
  04/05/09
complete DeBunked
M. I. Gay
  11/06/26
Why?
maroon marketing idea hall
  04/05/09
Because it provides by far the most logical arguments you'll...
narrow-minded theater stage
  04/05/09
What if I just think it's nonsense and don't really care abo...
maroon marketing idea hall
  04/05/09
You can't think it's nonsense with confidence unless you've ...
narrow-minded theater stage
  04/05/09
meh, just seems like bullshit. later.
maroon marketing idea hall
  04/05/09
just don't be a bad person and you won't go to hell even if ...
henna comical boistinker
  04/05/09
Who gives two shits whether any man-made belief system is ri...
vibrant amethyst yarmulke death wish
  04/05/09
Does it address Zeno-type paradoxes like the question of whe...
scarlet point mexican
  04/05/09
It is more focused on the divinity of Jesus looking at histo...
grizzly headpube
  04/05/09
you do realize that no amount of physical or historical evid...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
I wasn't all that impressed by the book, personally (though ...
grizzly headpube
  04/05/09
most christians are ignorant third world poors
maroon marketing idea hall
  04/05/09
This is true, actually.
chartreuse lay
  04/05/09
So would be the statement "most people are ignorant thi...
grizzly headpube
  04/05/09
This is true, actually.
chartreuse lay
  04/05/09
why? the blind acceptance from the crib, the need to believ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
Zeno paradoxes? why would a book on Christianity address Ze...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
b/c christianity is itself based on a few paradoxes, the pro...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
explain what zeno paradoxes have to do with this.
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
nothing, the dood was comparing those paradoxes to the ones ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
i disagree.
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
what is your simple solution to the problem of evil then?
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
lots of people have posited arguments about why god might al...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
free will is another one of the problems, if you'll read a l...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
i've read lots of augustine. i think free will is an intere...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
which ones? the only really decent one is liebniz's best of...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
there are far more recent ones than leibniz. john hick'...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
that which is perfectly good and perfectly powerful and perf...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Scott_Moore/www/handouts/free_wi...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
in just scanning the first flaw I see is that the argument w...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
The argument is that it is consisent with an all powerful, a...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
not really, it ignores creation, god does not allow evil to ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
see my edit. Also, the whole point of the argument is tha...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
how so, why could god not have created free moral agents imb...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
The argument is that the first world is not perfect. It lac...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
but he can offer no reason why free will is good when its on...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
i guess if you want to say that a freely chosen act of kindn...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
"most people's sense of good" isn't an argument of...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
Are you serious? Please point me to the defintion of &quo...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
no, you are saying random acts of kindness coupled with rand...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
"no, you are saying random acts of kindness coupled wit...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
relying on axioms that aren't that obvious is never a good f...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
if you had no other option but to do it, how is it kind?
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
god has no option but do lots of things, are you saying God ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
you are arguing that god is not free. that is a whole other...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
doesn't take much of a debate god is perfect so god must do...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
i don't have time for this. im going out soon. suffice to...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
suffice it to say, aquinas is just making shit up at that po...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
i don't think you understand what "inconsistent" m...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
and you don't undestand creation, god does not allow evil, h...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
"if good and evil are simply forces at work that requir...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
if good requires evil to exist than those who perform that e...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
"if good requires evil to exist than those who perform ...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
maybe you need to read up on it again x requires y or else ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
the same way a cute puppy can be a good thing even if god hi...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
but if god does not have free will then there is something s...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
the idea of there being a perfect good is not inconsisent wi...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
when the perfect good and the lesser good necessarily preclu...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
how does the perfect good and the lesser good preclude each ...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
the perfect good is the state of god that is not free will, ...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
See what I said above about Aquinas. I agree that this is a...
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
Because one of the arguments against God (or at least agains...
scarlet point mexican
  04/05/09
it's not
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
Then I stand corrected. Thanks.
scarlet point mexican
  04/05/09
descartes never really meant it, and one of his proofs is ba...
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
...
Laughsome Sooty Fanboi
  04/05/09
forgive them mike_ditka, for they know not what they do
very tactful twisted crackhouse
  04/05/09
180 pounds of muhr.
Stimulating pearl tattoo lodge
  04/05/09
Gee, I would but there are so many food labels I have not ha...
Dashing Boiling Water
  04/05/09
lol
chartreuse lay
  04/05/09
so the hellenized jews didn't make up jesus to pwn the roman...
Nofapping plaza cumskin
  04/05/09
Does he explain why despite the fact that Judea was a litera...
Brass misunderstood principal's office
  04/05/09
jesus was invisible to heathens
Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire
  04/05/09
subtle anti shawarma trolling.
Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse
  04/05/09
lol
henna comical boistinker
  04/05/09
I read it. Now I believe. Enjoy burning in hell heathens...
painfully honest black woman
  04/05/09
is it also a thoroughly researched and methodically logical...
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  04/05/09
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  11/06/26


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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:10 AM
Author: narrow-minded theater stage

It's a thoroughly researched and methodically logical examination of where Christianity is legit. It was really what turned me when I was cynical and too smart for my own good. I don't think you should bash Christianity until you read this. It's written by the former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338046)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:25 PM
Author: chartreuse lay

Mike, the word is "atheist" and not "athiest."

HTH

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339663)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:10 AM
Author: rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug

No.

Thanks for asking though. That was thoughful.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338050)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:11 AM
Author: narrow-minded theater stage

Sounds just like me 10 years ago. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338058)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:12 AM
Author: rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug

That right, the whole bowl of dicks.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338063)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:20 AM
Author: vibrant amethyst yarmulke death wish

I like you as a poster.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338097)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:11 AM
Author: Sable useless brakes

That book has been refuted many times, idiot.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338053)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:12 AM
Author: narrow-minded theater stage

Convincing.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338059)



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Date: November 6th, 2026 5:56 PM
Author: M. I. Gay

complete DeBunked

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#50238978)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:15 AM
Author: maroon marketing idea hall

Why?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338077)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:16 AM
Author: narrow-minded theater stage

Because it provides by far the most logical arguments you'll ever hear in favor of Christianity. If you really want to be confident that there's no logical basis for it, this is the best/easiest way.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338083)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:18 AM
Author: maroon marketing idea hall

What if I just think it's nonsense and don't really care about the subject? Can I just go ahead and live my life without reading your friend's little book?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338089)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:21 AM
Author: narrow-minded theater stage

You can't think it's nonsense with confidence unless you've dealt with the strongest logical arguments in favor of it. Personally, if the issue involves me possibly going to hell, I'm going to take the time to at least read a short book.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338102)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:22 AM
Author: maroon marketing idea hall

meh, just seems like bullshit. later.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338104)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:06 PM
Author: henna comical boistinker

just don't be a bad person and you won't go to hell even if your little fantasy world does turn out to be more than flaming bullshit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339924)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:21 AM
Author: vibrant amethyst yarmulke death wish

Who gives two shits whether any man-made belief system is right or wrong?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338100)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:30 AM
Author: scarlet point mexican

Does it address Zeno-type paradoxes like the question of whether God can create a rock so big that he cannot lift it? Or is this book something like a dumbed down version of Descartes' Proof of God's Existence (which has been discredited)?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338135)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:18 PM
Author: grizzly headpube

It is more focused on the divinity of Jesus looking at historical evidence, archeological evidence, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338607)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:35 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

you do realize that no amount of physical or historical evidence can ever make any case for a supernatural being right?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338762)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:42 PM
Author: grizzly headpube

I wasn't all that impressed by the book, personally (though I only read a few chapters). That doesn't change the fact that I have a whole lot more respect for most Christians than for most atheists.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338810)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:44 PM
Author: maroon marketing idea hall

most christians are ignorant third world poors

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338828)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:14 PM
Author: chartreuse lay

This is true, actually.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339593)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:25 PM
Author: grizzly headpube

So would be the statement "most people are ignorant third-world poors."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339658)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:26 PM
Author: chartreuse lay

This is true, actually.



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339668)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:44 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

why? the blind acceptance from the crib, the need to believe that is so great it will inspire violence when threatened sufficiently?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338831)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:41 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

Zeno paradoxes? why would a book on Christianity address Zeno paradoxes?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338806)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:43 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

b/c christianity is itself based on a few paradoxes, the problem of evil in teh face of a god who is claimed to be omnipotent, omniscient and ominibenevolent for one

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338820)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:46 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

explain what zeno paradoxes have to do with this.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338847)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:47 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

nothing, the dood was comparing those paradoxes to the ones contained in christianity, the point is there are some paradoxes

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338857)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:48 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

i disagree.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338863)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:48 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

what is your simple solution to the problem of evil then?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338868)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:50 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

lots of people have posited arguments about why god might allow evil to exist.

e.g. god wanted to create human beings as free moral agents to shape the world for good or ill.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338894)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:52 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

free will is another one of the problems, if you'll read a little augustine you'll see how much bullshit his solution is given that a perfect god would seem to act purely by necessity

all of the theodicies are terrible

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338908)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:54 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

i've read lots of augustine. i think free will is an interesting problem, but it's a problem for far more than christians. it's a problem for anyone who beleives in morality at all.

i think some of the theodicies are successful on the moral problem of evil.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338934)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:57 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

which ones? the only really decent one is liebniz's best of all possible worlds (which most people mock a la voltaire)

it isn't morality that gets in the way of free will, it is a morality that is defined and enforced by an all powerful all good god

point is, these are serious problems and the vast majority of christians don't even know what the world "theodicy" means and it has never even ocurred to them that their notions of free will are not consistent with their notions of god

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338960)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 2:04 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

there are far more recent ones than leibniz.

john hick's: i don't like much.

alvin plantinga: this is solid on the argument from moral evil IMO.

I know morality doesn't get in the way of free will. And I don't think the problem is supposed to be that God enforces evil, it's supposed to be that it's not compatible with omniscience.

free will is consisent with god, IMO.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339020)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 2:07 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

that which is perfectly good and perfectly powerful and perfectly knowledgable must create only that which is best, best is superlative, that is singular, perfection is unity etc etc. all that bullshit

which is to say god must do that which is best, if he doesn't, he isn't god as we conceive of him, free will actively and consistently undermines that which is best (just look around you man)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339045)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 2:09 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Scott_Moore/www/handouts/free_will_defense.html

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339060)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 2:13 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

in just scanning the first flaw I see is that the argument wants the atheist to show that that which is good will always "eliminate" evil, but the christian himself already claims that that which is good is the very source of evil (unless they want to become zoroastrians instead or neoplatonists, in which case there are other problems, although the neoplantoic theodicy is pretty decent)

god is not only perfect, he is the source of all that is, being is a result of his divine will, which is to say this argument tries to overcome the problem by simply redefining god and christianity

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339092)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:12 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

The argument is that it is consisent with an all powerful, all knowing and all loving god to allow evil to exist because creating free moral agents (with the capatcity to choose to commit right or wrong acts) is a great good that cannot exist without evil.

The argument is logically sound and is consistent with orthodox christianity.

edit: if you mean that god is the "source" of evil because god creates free will which entails evil acts, that's true. as far as i know, that's not opposed to orthodox christianity. god created satan, and is therefore in some sense the "source" of evil. that is the doctrine.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339588)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:14 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

not really, it ignores creation, god does not allow evil to exist, he causes it to exist

free moral agents may provide some amount of good but the end result is something less than perfection, which god, as a perfect and all powerful being, is capable of providing but has failed to do

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339595)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:20 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

see my edit.

Also, the whole point of the argument is that god could have created a world with no evil if he had chosen not to create other free moral agents (possible world 1).

The premise is that a world with free moral agents is a great good, absent from possible world 1.

Possible world 2 contains free moral agents who sometimes do evil acts.

On balance, possible world 2 is better than possible world 1.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339620)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:24 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

how so, why could god not have created free moral agents imbued with knowledge of that which is good and a need, much like the need god himself must have, to only do that which is good?

And wouldn't the first world be perfect? How can anything be better than perfection? What benefit is there to free will? At the end of the day this is all post hoc rationalization for underlying beliefs that are not consistent. The true solution is this, either god does not exist, or he is not perfect as we think of him. Both of those solutions make far more sense.

edit: the notion of satan is also inconsistent. The story goes that Satan rebelled against god, but god had absolute control of Satan (even if he gave him free will God can always take it back so he is in effect tacitly consenting to all the actions of his creation), so god rebelled against himself?



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339651)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:31 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

The argument is that the first world is not perfect. It lacks free moral agents choosing to do good acts, which is a good thing.

You are hung up on the idea that a perfect world is simply one without any evil. Plantinga's argument is that there is good that is absent from the perfect world you describe, and that such good is only possible where evil is also possible. On balance, possible world 2 is better than possible world 1.

You may disagree, but this is entirely logical and "consistent." Far better philosophers than you, who are atheists, have admitted as much.

If you create an agent that "needs" to do good, is that agent free?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339697)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:37 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

but he can offer no reason why free will is good when its only known effect is to ensure that things are not perfect, logically, free will seems like an evil

his argument comes down to "free will is good", but there is no reason whatsoever to think this, and there are plenty of reasons to think that it is itself inconsistent with god, look at the reasons that doods like augustine and boethius both end up with to support free will (both of whom are better philosophers than both of us and than plantinga) and tell me there isn't a serious problem that has yet to be convincingly solved

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339717)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:40 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

i guess if you want to say that a freely chosen act of kindness is not inherently a good thing, i can't prove you wrong. it seems clear that this is out of touch with most people's sense of goodness/value. plantinga is appealing to people who share that intuition.

i agree that if you don't think random acts of kindness are a good thing this argument should be unconvincing to you.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339728)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:41 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

"most people's sense of good" isn't an argument of any sort, it is an appeal to emotion, which makes this argument more of the sort of bullshit one would expect, and utterly unconvincing

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339734)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:48 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

Are you serious?

Please point me to the defintion of "good."

I'm saying random acts of kindness are good. You're saying they're not. This is base-level intution. You can't argue about it.

There is no argument, for example, that pleasure is good. You accept the premise or not.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339774)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:51 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

no, you are saying random acts of kindness coupled with random acts of viciousness are good, I'm saying acts of kindness minus the chance for viciousness is good

I don't accept the premise, b/c there is no reason to do so, and that is why I am not a christian. You accept the premise, without a reason to do so (other than your own need to believe it) and that makes you one. I'll stick to my reasons.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339793)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:55 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

"no, you are saying random acts of kindness coupled with random acts of viciousness are good, I'm saying acts of kindness minus the chance for viciousness is good"

the point is that if there is no chance for viciousness then it was not a "random act of kindness," which people understand as being FREELY chosen.

I am not a Christian. If you don't think freely chosen good acts are good I can't convince you any more than I can convice you pleasure is good. These things are intutions that you accept and move on, or not. Like pleasure = good. That's why philosophers don't argue about them. If you want to deny that pleasure = good to a utilitarian, he will have no more to say to you.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339832)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:01 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

relying on axioms that aren't that obvious is never a good foundation for a system of belief

I think an act of kindness is good even if it was done simply b/c it is a good thing to do and apart from any randomness, this seems like a much more common intuition

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339878)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:03 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

if you had no other option but to do it, how is it kind?



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339893)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:04 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

god has no option but do lots of things, are you saying God is not perfectly kind?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339902)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:12 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

you are arguing that god is not free. that is a whole other debate.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339972)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:14 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

doesn't take much of a debate

god is perfect so god must do that which is perfect

unless you want to argue that perfection is not an absolute state you're pretty screwed on this one, most people agree, by intuition and more, that perfection is unity, it is singular, and it is absolute

any possible action must be capable of comparison to other possible actions, and only one of them can be the best and god can only do that which is best, so he acts by necessity

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339989)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:21 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

i don't have time for this. im going out soon.

suffice to say, it is not simple:

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1019.htm#article3



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11340026)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:24 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

suffice it to say, aquinas is just making shit up at that point

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11340041)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:35 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

i don't think you understand what "inconsistent" means.

a good god allowing evil to exist is only "inconsisent" if goodness is necessarily inconsisent with the possibility of evil. this the whole argument: there are goods that cannot exist without evil.

EDIT: YES GOD TACITLY CONSENTS. The argument is that this is not inconsisent with god being all knowing, powerful, loving.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339706)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:39 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

and you don't undestand creation, god does not allow evil, he causes it

the solution is that God is not "good" but simply "is" and that evil is a part of that

the argument that good requires evil fails b/c it robs you of any good reason to prefer good to evil, if good and evil are simply forces at work that require each other to exist, why not be evil? In doing so you are causing good to come about, which makes you good.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339725)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:42 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

"if good and evil are simply forces at work that require each other to exist, why not be evil? In doing so you are causing good to come about, which makes you good."

this is not logically entailed at all.



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339740)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:45 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

if good requires evil to exist than those who perform that evil are a necessary cause of good

I don't know about you but that which is necessary for something I call a cause, and I assign moral responsibility to actions based on what they cause, but if evil causes good how does one call anything evil?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339751)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:49 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

"if good requires evil to exist than those who perform that evil are a necessary cause of good"

Please see "intro to logic" for how this is not entailed.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339782)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:53 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

maybe you need to read up on it again

x requires y or else x cannot exist

not y, therefore, not x

pretty logical

also, how can free will be a good thing if god himself does not possess it?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339812)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:00 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

the same way a cute puppy can be a good thing even if god himself is not a cute puppy.

it's not evil that must exist, it is the option of evil that must exist.

edit: what i was objecting to above was your idea that doing evil logically causes good.

evil being a necessary byproduct of free choice (a good) != evil causees good.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339864)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:03 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

but if god does not have free will then there is something superior to free will (as god is always perfect right) and it would be better if whatever that state of being is were the case in the world, so why wouldn't god do that which is best?

your argument is that god chooses free will for no reason whatsoever, it leads to evil, or perhaps even needs evil, and there are better options, as demonstrated by god himself

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339896)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:07 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

the idea of there being a perfect good is not inconsisent with the idea of there also being lesser goods.

tell me what world is better:

1. only a perfect good exists.

2. a world with a perfect good and other lesser goods also exists.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339930)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:09 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

when the perfect good and the lesser good necessarily preclude the existence of one another (ie we can't be free and whatever it is that god is) the perfect good is better by definition

free will cannot exist along with not-free will, and that is your solution, a paradox

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339949)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:13 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

how does the perfect good and the lesser good preclude each other's existence?

i don't understand your second sentence.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339981)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:15 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

the perfect good is the state of god that is not free will, whatever the opposite of free will is, let's call it determinism

the lesser good is free will

one cannot be both free and determined, that is a contradiction

god is determined, so determined must be superior to free

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339997)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:23 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

See what I said above about Aquinas. I agree that this is an issue that needs to be resolved, but I don't think it's clear and I have to leave.

If you're ever on when I am later I'm happy to finish it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11340033)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:46 PM
Author: scarlet point mexican

Because one of the arguments against God (or at least against the idea of an all-powerful God) is the omnipotence paradox. I don't remember if this is one of Zeno's paradoxes or not.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338844)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:48 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

it's not

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338859)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:49 PM
Author: scarlet point mexican

Then I stand corrected. Thanks.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338873)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:45 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

descartes never really meant it, and one of his proofs is basically the ontological proof, which has not been discredited

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338835)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:32 AM
Author: Laughsome Sooty Fanboi



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338141)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 11:36 AM
Author: very tactful twisted crackhouse

forgive them mike_ditka, for they know not what they do

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338155)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:43 PM
Author: Stimulating pearl tattoo lodge

180 pounds of muhr.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338812)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:43 PM
Author: Dashing Boiling Water

Gee, I would but there are so many food labels I have not had the chance to read yet.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338825)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:27 PM
Author: chartreuse lay

lol

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339671)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 1:46 PM
Author: Nofapping plaza cumskin

so the hellenized jews didn't make up jesus to pwn the romans? go figure!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11338842)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:19 PM
Author: Brass misunderstood principal's office

Does he explain why despite the fact that Judea was a literate province there are no independent, written accounts of Jesus's ascension to heaven over a large city? I'm just curious. I mean, I guess I could see how all the residents would just look up, see some dude going up to heaven and just shrug and write about their falafel being mediocre instead.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339614)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:20 PM
Author: Hot Public Bath Multi-billionaire

jesus was invisible to heathens

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339623)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:22 PM
Author: Soggy International Law Enforcement Agency Whorehouse

subtle anti shawarma trolling.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339636)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:17 PM
Author: henna comical boistinker

lol

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11340005)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 3:51 PM
Author: painfully honest black woman

I read it. Now I believe.

Enjoy burning in hell heathens.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11339798)



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Date: April 5th, 2009 4:23 PM
Author: Navy chest-beating rehab

is it also a thoroughly researched and methodically logical examination of rising from the dead, walking on water, getting pregnant with god's kid without getting fucked by him, and the utility of sycophantic "prayer"?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#11340036)



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Date: November 6th, 2026 6:00 PM
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(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=968412&forum_id=2#50238991)