Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Logical Problem of Evil or God, You're a Riot!
Before Alvin Plantinga can declare victory over the logical prolem of evil, and John Hick can exstasize over free-will and soul-making, they should heed Patrick T.Mackenzie^to reveal God before before affirming the existence of Heaven to make up for the pointless evils here and to argue for the testing of our wills for soul-making.
We're discussing this problem that does seem to deny an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God. One would follow the customary theist begging the question otherwise!
I require supernaturalists to adduce evidence rather than assume His attributes or other mysteries.
To assme those attributes begs the question, folks! So against Aquinas, he cannot assume that His nature is good to overcome the Euthyphro argument that maintains that morality exists independently of Him.
Not only that, the causal principle also exists independently of Him so that He cannot be the Primary Cause after all!
He can then neither declare what is moral or even put into place anything without being Himself dependent on natural causation!
So, how can we naturalists not blame Him for pointless evils and not find His nature good and not to find Him not subservient to a part of Nature itself?
Supernaturalists are otiose- lazy- in not providing evidence without begging the question, and that otiosity makes for Him being Himself being otiose- vacuous!
^Mackenzie- " The Problems of Philosophers"
We're discussing this problem that does seem to deny an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God. One would follow the customary theist begging the question otherwise!
I require supernaturalists to adduce evidence rather than assume His attributes or other mysteries.
To assme those attributes begs the question, folks! So against Aquinas, he cannot assume that His nature is good to overcome the Euthyphro argument that maintains that morality exists independently of Him.
Not only that, the causal principle also exists independently of Him so that He cannot be the Primary Cause after all!
He can then neither declare what is moral or even put into place anything without being Himself dependent on natural causation!
So, how can we naturalists not blame Him for pointless evils and not find His nature good and not to find Him not subservient to a part of Nature itself?
Supernaturalists are otiose- lazy- in not providing evidence without begging the question, and that otiosity makes for Him being Himself being otiose- vacuous!
^Mackenzie- " The Problems of Philosophers"
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