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evolution wrote: October 16th, 2020, 8:26 am
Sculptor1 wrote: October 14th, 2020, 4:00 pm

It's not Ripper's God. His argument is based on the standard God of the Christians.

You then follow up your bile with a strawman, as if the absence of evil would necessarily mean "a perfectly harmonious world". Your argument here is in fact trivial, since you create a false dilemma.
If the 'absence of evil' would NOT necessarily mean 'a perfectly harmonious world', then what does an 'absence of evil', to you, necessarily mean?
Sculptor1 wrote: October 14th, 2020, 4:00 pm Fact is that there is a great deal of useless suffering with no benefit to "material evolution".
Will you provide some examples?

If yes, then will you discuss them from an OPEN perspective?

If yes, then GREAT.
Sculptor1 wrote: October 14th, 2020, 4:00 pm In fact there is so much pain and death that seems to fall upon the good and evil indiscriminately that one can only conclude that if there is a god he/she/it is not the benevolent omniscient, omnipresent... ad nauseam entity.
LOL

The only pain 'you', human beings, feel is the one brought on by the, so called, "adult/grown up" ones.

And, saying, "there is so much death that seems to fall upon the good and evil indiscriminately", is just plain and obviously ABSURD.

Death falls on EVERY one, EQUALLY.
Sculptor1 wrote: October 14th, 2020, 4:00 pm And actually not very bright to be so wasteful and capricious.
Have you ever thought of taking a breath and reading what people write before you answer a post?
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Well, or even better--has he ever thought about trying to not come across like an insufferable a-hole?
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Jack D Ripper wrote: October 15th, 2020, 10:42 pm

I think you missed the point of Candide. It is ridiculing the idea that this is the best of all possible worlds. Since almost every person can think of ways to improve it, it is obviously idiotic to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds.

But for the sake of the unimaginative, do you think that coming up with the polio vaccine improved the world? Humans are constantly working on making things to improve the world, which, if created by a god, leaves a lot to be desired. Otherwise, people would not need to work so hard for making improvements.
Is the polio vaccine a good thing? If it is, we should recognize that it would be impossible without polio.

Your ally in the War against God, Sculptor, thinks (based on his comments in one of the thousands of fate v. free will threads) that everything has a cause, and thus nothing can happen "freely". If that's the case, this is the best of all possible worlds. It is also the worst of all possible worlds. The two statements are not contradictory.

A.E. Housman wrote this poem:
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

Is suffering and death vital to joy? Housman seems to think that if he were immortal -- if the springs in which the cherries bloom stretched on forever -- he might NOT bother to head out to the woodlands.

Andrew Marvel appears to agree. He tells his Coy Mistress:
At my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near..... (so)
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
In "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", William Blake makes the case for the impossibility of good without evil, soul without body, or heaven without hell. He may (or may not) have been thinking of Jack when he wrote, "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." (It's one of the "proverbs of hell".)

From the start of that book:
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what religions call Good and Evil Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from energy."
Your literalism and Fundamentalism are showing, Jack. One of the "Proverbs of Hell" is: "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

Heaven and hell are (perhaps) different ways of looking at the same thing. Is one impossible without the other? "The Kingdom of God is within you," said Jesus. According to Blake, at least, so is the Kingdom of Satan.
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Felix wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:44 am
Jack D. Ripper: "And what sort of argument are you making when you allege it is not possible to make a better realm?"
You're missing the point. Certain physical conditions are required to form a material reality that will support the genesis and growth of life.

You seem to be assuming that having a material world in which things evolve is desirable. That is something for which evidence should be given before anyone believes this.

Felix wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:44 am We are aware of some of these conditions, which we call the laws of physics.

You seem to be assuming that the laws of physics could not have been made to be something else. That is something for which evidence should be given before anyone believes this.


But even if we grant, for the sake of argument, that the laws of physics must be as they are, the laws of physics do not prevent a god from telling humans how to make a polio vaccine or any other such thing that would have been beneficial if people had them earlier than they did. So you still end up with an evil being, if there is a being that is omnipotent and omniscient, since that being obviously did not give people the information to make the polio vaccine before it was discovered or invented by people.

There are countless other such examples of no god helping out at all, when it would be easy to help, without violating any laws of physics. So this introduction of having to follow the laws of physics is a red herring, a smokescreen, that even if true, does nothing to show that your god is not an evil bastard (or would be, if it existed).

Felix wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:44 am Omnipotence does not mean being able to do the impossible, but rather being able to do whatever is possible. That is, even an omnipotent God would have to acquiesce to the laws of physical manifestation, e.g., physical light would require a material source of light.
"If a perfect harmonious realm is impossible, that makes hash of the Christian idea of heaven."
No, because Heaven is not considered to be a physical realm, surely you know that?

First of all, that is a matter of some controversy, with some Christians believing that heaven is a material place. (There are some Biblical verses which strongly indicate that.) But I will set that aside.

If heaven is not a physical realm, that seems to suggest that having a physical realm is just a bad idea. Making an unnecessary realm that has evil is an evil thing to do.

Felix wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:44 am
"However, Sculptor1 is correct, that things could be better, if there were a god."
Maybe, maybe not. It's a big universe, possibly even infinite, I imagine there are both better and worse habitats than ours, and locales where the residents take better care of their neighbors and neighborhoods.

You yourself know of countless ways to improve the world. You can pretend that you don't, but no one is going to believe you. The whole history of humanity has been a quest for improving the world.

Felix wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:44 am
"Also, it is worth pointing out the fact that one can know that one thing is better than another, without necessarily knowing what other thing would be ideal."
You just torpedoed your own argument.

You need to do more than just claim a victory. Of course, when you have no real argument, you are reduced to such silliness.
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evolution wrote: October 16th, 2020, 6:30 am
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 12th, 2020, 2:49 pm That should be (with bold emphasis added to note the correction):

When I was young and naive and a believer, I was shocked when other believers openly told me that they would lie or say anything to convince others of the truth of religion.
Why were you shocked?

I find the blatant contraction truly humorous.

I was shocked because I was young (a child) and naive. Some of those people were members of the church I attended.

Now, of course, I am not surprised when I encounter Christians who are total hypocrites and who affirm contradictory nonsense. It is almost shocking if one encounters a Christian who is not obviously hypocritical and who does not openly affirm contradictory nonsense.
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evolution wrote: October 16th, 2020, 7:17 am...
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 12th, 2020, 8:37 pm Indeed, if there were not such close agreement, society would not be possible, because everyone would constantly be against everyone else on all of the standards of conduct.
Through your "argument" you go from majority of people agreeing on the basic principles of morals, and from that general perspective of things there is near universal agreement about, so called, "bad" things happen, "in the world", like, for example; it is bad when children die, agonizingly, from bone cancer, and from there you move to "societies would not be possible" and "standards of conduct".

Conflating 'bad' with children dying in "agonizing deaths" from bone cancer and with morals and standards of conduct is just absurdness in the extreme.

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If there were an omniscient and omnipotent being, it could prevent all of those things. Since it obviously does not prevent them, its inaction demonstrates that it is evil (or would, if such a being existed).

When there is a house of fire on the other side of town, I do not call the fire department because I am unaware of it being on fire. An omniscient being must necessarily be aware of it, and consequently it would be in a position to do something. Yet this being, which is also supposed to be omnipotent, which would make it capable of putting out the fire, doesn't even bother to call the fire department. So we may judge this being to be evil, if it existed.
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Terrapin Station wrote: October 16th, 2020, 8:54 am
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 14th, 2020, 5:45 pm


After I was done with this site for the night, I regretted what I wrote almost immediately. Not because I thought it was wrong, but because it is unimportant to the task at hand. It does not matter, for the purposes of this discussion, what the correct view of ethics is. (And that would be better discussed in the ethics section of this site instead of the religion section of this site.)

What I should have stated is something like this:

You seem to be taking a straight up subjectivist approach to ethics. Thus, with:

1) S says, "X is good."

where "S" is something that can make an affirmation, like a human, an alien being like those seen on science fiction shows (if such a being were real), a talking dog like Mr. Peabody (from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show, if he were real), an angel (If real), a god (if real), etc., and where X is anything that would make a meaningful sentence, like "freedom from pain", "torturing small children with flaming hot pincers", etc.

The straight subjectivist approach, based on 1 above, is to affirm:

2) S likes X.

And that is the full significance of 1, on the subjectivist interpretation.

Now, what that means is that, if that view is correct, the statement "X is good" within 1 is not really about X, but is about S. It is about what S likes. So that the true subject of what is being said is S, which is more clearly indicated with 2, because with 2 the grammatical subject is what the statement is about.


Now, how this relates to the opening post is that with the statement:

3) God is good.

That is supposed to be telling you something about God. But, on the subjectivist interpretation, it is not. It is telling you about whoever it is who says "God is good." In the opening post, the statement about God's goodness is supposed to be about God. If the idea of "goodness" as a property of a thing is wrong or incoherent, then the description in the opening post is wrong or incoherent. And if that is the case, then the God of the opening post simply does not exist, because nothing has that property of goodness that is being affirmed about God in that description.

So we don't even have to think about omnipotence or omniscience or about evil (which, of course, on the straight subjectivist interpretation, evil is also not a property of a thing, but a feeling about the thing, just like good). Because, on the subjectivist interpretation of "good", there is no God as described in the opening post because goodness is not a property of a thing.

If it is clearer, what is meant by "God is good" is:

4) God has a property [of goodness].


When religious people tell you that "God is good", haven't you gotten the impression that they mean to be saying something about God, rather than just saying that they like God? That God being good is a selling point of the religion, that is supposed to make you like God, too, because of this property of "goodness" that God allegedly has? This is quite different from someone telling you that they like chocolate ice cream more than vanilla ice cream, because that is not something that is supposed to make you prefer chocolate, though someone might want you to try it, thinking that your tastes may be similar. Sometimes, of course, someone jokingly says that it is wrong to eat vanilla ice cream and that it is only right and proper to eat chocolate ice cream, often as a way of trying to emphasize their love of chocolate ice cream.

But we need not pursue that here; the point is, the description in the opening post is supposed to be about God, certainly not about how I feel about God. If goodness isn't a property of a thing, then the description is inaccurate, which is to say, no such thing exists.
First, saying that x doesn't have property φ, even though property φ is postulated of x, doesn't imply that x doesn't exist, unless x is supposed to be exhaustively identical to φ (that is, x is identical to φ and only identical to φ, so that if there's no φ, there's no x).

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The denial of God having any of the three defining characteristics is a denial that a god exists that has all of those characteristics. I explicitly stated in the opening post that this does not prove that some other conception of a god does not exist. It is only about a being that has all of the three characteristics of the opening post. If a being has two of them, but not the third, then the being is not the God described there. Or if it has only one of the characteristics, or none of them, then it is not the God being discussed in this thread. I even gave an example, Zeus, whose existence is not disproven by anything in the post.
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evolution wrote: October 16th, 2020, 9:23 am
Fanman wrote: October 14th, 2020, 5:57 pm SilverRing,



I think that you make a valid point. In that killing, in essence, is wrong. But dependant upon the circumstances killing may not be viewed as wrong if it is done for a particular, justifiable reason. Such as self-defence, or as you give reference to, the military. I think that our individual sensitivities come into play here, whereby some may not be as offended by killing as others, depending on what we have seen, what has influenced us and our general perceptions of right and wrong, in terms of ethics.

With regards to God, I think that he would, if he existed, have a duty of care towards his creation.
Why does a Thing 'have to' have a duty of care towards Its creation?

If a thing creates something, then does it NOT have the right to do whatever it wants with its creation?

Do I not have the right to use and do whatever I see fit with what I create?

...

So you do not think that parents, who create their children, have any duty to care for them? That parents have the right to do whatever they want with their children? So they may set them on fire or eat them or sexually assault them or anything else that they might wish to do with them?

Do you really believe that, or is it that you don't believe your own proposed principle, that a being may do whatever it wants to its creation?
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Terrapin Station wrote: October 16th, 2020, 9:04 am Is this a mania day, evolution?

It is an arguing tactic to overwhelm one's opponent with a huge pile of crap to try to make it so that the other person will either waste an incredible amount of time, or be left open to the accusation that the person did not deal with some "essential" point. And since many of the questions and comments appear to show no understanding of what has been said, or even what the thread is about, we can expect more of the same to any replies that may attempt to address any of the statements made.

This type of argument style is called "Gish Gallop", which you can read about online in multiple places, such as:

https://effectiviology.com/gish-gallop/

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop


It can be combined with argumentum ad nauseum [which differs from Gish Gallop in that it is repeating the same thing(s)]:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/log ... Repetition


It is a strategy anyone can use who has sufficient time to write more things. One can pretend that the one thereby "wins" the argument.
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Ecurb wrote: October 16th, 2020, 11:30 am
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 15th, 2020, 10:42 pm

I think you missed the point of Candide. It is ridiculing the idea that this is the best of all possible worlds. Since almost every person can think of ways to improve it, it is obviously idiotic to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds.

But for the sake of the unimaginative, do you think that coming up with the polio vaccine improved the world? Humans are constantly working on making things to improve the world, which, if created by a god, leaves a lot to be desired. Otherwise, people would not need to work so hard for making improvements.
Is the polio vaccine a good thing? If it is, we should recognize that it would be impossible without polio.

The polio vaccine is only good because there is something bad (polio) that it protects people from. So, in a perfect world, the polio vaccine would not exist, which would not be a bad thing, because there would be no need for it.

There are many things in this world whose existence, like the polio vaccine, points to what is bad in the world.

To put this another way, a world in which a polio vaccine were not needed, but is otherwise the same as this world, would be a better world than this one with the vaccine.

Ecurb wrote: October 16th, 2020, 11:30 am
Your ally in the War against God, Sculptor, thinks (based on his comments in one of the thousands of fate v. free will threads) that everything has a cause, and thus nothing can happen "freely". If that's the case, this is the best of all possible worlds. It is also the worst of all possible worlds. The two statements are not contradictory.

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The idea that everything has a cause does not entail the conclusion that this is the best of all possible worlds. If there were a God, it could have given the world a different beginning, and consequently the world could be better.

Also, it is not a war against God. It is a war against people having the silly belief that there is a God. God is untouched, in the same way Santa Claus is untouched when someone argues against the existence of Santa Claus.
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Jack D Ripper wrote: October 16th, 2020, 2:42 pm The denial of God having any of the three defining characteristics is a denial that a god exists that has all of those characteristics. I explicitly stated in the opening post that this does not prove that some other conception of a god does not exist. It is only about a being that has all of the three characteristics of the opening post. If a being has two of them, but not the third, then the being is not the God described there. Or if it has only one of the characteristics, or none of them, then it is not the God being discussed in this thread. I even gave an example, Zeus, whose existence is not disproven by anything in the post.
Sure, a denial of a God that has a property of omnibenevolence where omnibenevolence is supposedly a mind-independent (including a God's-mind-independent) property is a denial of a God that has such a property (among others), but that's not a denial of an omnibenevolent God period, and there would be no way to show that all believer claims of omnibenevolence are claims of a supposedly mind-independent property. In fact, I think that's quite implausible, as I'm sure that most believers would say that the notion of good that matters here, the core notion of moral good period, is a property of God's nature--and specifically of his mind's nature.
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Terrapin Station wrote: October 16th, 2020, 4:09 pm
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 16th, 2020, 2:42 pm The denial of God having any of the three defining characteristics is a denial that a god exists that has all of those characteristics. I explicitly stated in the opening post that this does not prove that some other conception of a god does not exist. It is only about a being that has all of the three characteristics of the opening post. If a being has two of them, but not the third, then the being is not the God described there. Or if it has only one of the characteristics, or none of them, then it is not the God being discussed in this thread. I even gave an example, Zeus, whose existence is not disproven by anything in the post.
Sure, a denial of a God that has a property of omnibenevolence where omnibenevolence is supposedly a mind-independent (including a God's-mind-independent) property is a denial of a God that has such a property (among others), but that's not a denial of an omnibenevolent God period, and there would be no way to show that all believer claims of omnibenevolence are claims of a supposedly mind-independent property. In fact, I think that's quite implausible, as I'm sure that most believers would say that the notion of good that matters here, the core notion of moral good period, is a property of God's nature--and specifically of his mind's nature.
A property of God's nature, but not an opinion or personal preference about God's nature. That is the key. In other words, it is supposed to mean something more than just that this being approves of itself, and more than just some people approve of it. The exact nature of the property need not be precisely defined, but it must have some association or correlation to the common use for the term "good". (I.e., it should make sense to use the term "good" in connection with this property.) That is, for example, if a property is such that this being enjoys torturing animals, then that isn't the property that could be meant by "good". It has to be that the property in question does not result in a twisted and distorted meaning being given to the word "good", where the term "good" is wildly misused.
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Terrapin Station wrote: October 16th, 2020, 10:58 am
evolution wrote: October 16th, 2020, 10:47 am What is the word 'it' here in your sentence refer to, exactly?
"It" was a pronoun standing for what's under discussion: argumentum ad populum.
Well as I previously stated; NOT 'EVERY' endorsement of consensus on such matter is 'argumentum ad populum'. And to think or believe it is, is VERY foolish, indeed.

So, what WAS under discussion WAS something different BEFORE you changed the discussion around, ONCE AGAIN, I will add.
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Jack D Ripper wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:19 pm In other words, it is supposed to mean something more than just that this being approves of itself, and more than just some people approve of it.
You're just making this part up.
it must have some association or correlation to the common use for the term "good".


And you're just making up that the conventional sense of the term has objectivist connotations.
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Terrapin Station wrote: October 16th, 2020, 7:09 pm
Jack D Ripper wrote: October 16th, 2020, 5:19 pm In other words, it is supposed to mean something more than just that this being approves of itself, and more than just some people approve of it.
You're just making this part up.
it must have some association or correlation to the common use for the term "good".


And you're just making up that the conventional sense of the term has objectivist connotations.
I am suggesting that saying that "God is good" is supposed to be a description of God, and not a description of what people think or feel about God.

When people say, "God is good," they typically do not mean for that to be dependent upon people, they do not typically mean for it to be a description of people (of their opinions) rather than description of God.

I am not saying that everyone uses the term "good" in an objectivist sense. I am suggesting that most people who say, "God is good", mean for that to be an objective expression. They mean for it to be a description of God, and not a description of what people think or feel.


It is fine for God to approve of God, but the reason why God is supposed to approve of God is that God is good; it is not supposed to be that God approving of God is what makes God good. Because that would just mean that God approves of God, which does not explain why God would approve of God.


Now, since you seem to suppose that I am wrong, what, exactly, do you suppose the typical Christian means when they say that God is good? Is that an expression about God, or about something else? What is it that you believe is commonly meant?
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In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All
by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
November 2022

The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity

The Smartest Person in the Room
by Christian Espinosa
December 2022

2021 Philosophy Books of the Month

The Biblical Clock: The Untold Secrets Linking the Universe and Humanity with God's Plan

The Biblical Clock
by Daniel Friedmann
March 2021

Wilderness Cry: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe

Wilderness Cry
by Dr. Hilary L Hunt M.D.
April 2021

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute: Tools To Spark Your Dream And Ignite Your Follow-Through

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute
by Jeff Meyer
May 2021

Surviving the Business of Healthcare: Knowledge is Power

Surviving the Business of Healthcare
by Barbara Galutia Regis M.S. PA-C
June 2021

Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure

Winning the War on Cancer
by Sylvie Beljanski
July 2021

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream
by Dr Frank L Douglas
August 2021

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts
by Mark L. Wdowiak
September 2021

The Preppers Medical Handbook

The Preppers Medical Handbook
by Dr. William W Forgey M.D.
October 2021

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress
by Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, MD
November 2021

Dream For Peace: An Ambassador Memoir

Dream For Peace
by Dr. Ghoulem Berrah
December 2021