>if god is real then why does [absolutely horrific thing like cancer, cyclops syndrome etc exist]Why does this board pretend that this isn't a perfectly valid argument?
Humans would be like ants to the Supreme Being. Do you care about ants?
>>18134066But the Supreme Being claims to love us?
>>18134076Where? Fanfiction isn't evidence.
>>18134082The Bible, what priests, the pope and evangelicals claim etc
>>18134054If God isn't real then why do things like kitty cats and bunny rabbits and sunshine and rainbows exist?
>>18134054>30,000+ years of suffering in a state of nature>religion is the norm>10,000 years of suffering in early, pre-inudstiral civilization>religion is the norm>50 years of unprecedented relative global peacetime, human material flourishing and wealth, eradication of perennial diseases, infant mortality, natural FAMINES, with hedonistic luxuries that would have been inconceivable to people just a handful of generations ago>REEEE WHY IS THERE SO MUCH PAIN AND SUFFERING THERE IS NO GODDDD!The argument is only compelling to weak ungrateful faggots who only know pain and suffering in the abstract.
>>18134086Those are evidently incorrect due to contradicting established knowledge about the universe and this planet in particular.
>>18134054Devil created heterotrophs and their abnormalities
>>18134054He provokes all those things as a Prime Mover, what's your point?
>>18134136And who created angels and free will?
So which of the billion of gods does not exist this time mr atheist?
>>18134165All of those fabricated billions minus one, you streetshitter.
>>18134054>valid argumentAh yes, succintly put.Billions of gods and religions, but the real one was the god that didn't exist because anon was mad the book was a lie and the world wasn't a pretty funride.Pray tell anon, you "disbelieve" christian religion, I pressume however you believe it's the only possibility. However I present a dilemma: Suppose I tell you I have followed doctrines such as the ones delineated in this here book and magical order of the Left Hand Path. The goal of my path is to become a demonic being.What do you surmise happened?a) I became a demonic being as advertisedb) It was lies by Satanc) It was lies by humans.d) If you could become a demon no one would be humane) But if god good and demons bad why my pistachio ice cream fell on the corpse of a deformed kitty?Easy, gnosticism>ButGnosticism wherein you become a demonic being at that.
>>18134066So why do you worship the supreme being? Why do you call it omnibenevolent?
>>18134200>So why do you worship the supreme being?I don't. Why would I? That's like worshipping gravitation.> Why do you call it omnibenevolent?I don't. Stop assuming things about me.
>>18134054Because religion, at least in its Abrahamic form, is essentially nothing more than the excuse and cope people present in order to never share power with anyone. In essence, democracy and politics were made to be able to effectively and honestly share power with people who are different than you, and Abrahamic religions are all the various excuses on order to bypass democracy and politics entirely. That's why the religious can never admit being wrong or immoral on anything, because would undermine the singular sacred goal of religion, which is to never share power with anyone, other than yourself and those directly around you. Without the factor of power, there's no thing as religion, or at least no such thing as mass religion
>>18134221>AbrahamicNot reading
>>18134100I think that's more reflective of the fact that we no longer need a coping mechanism to push through immense suffering. This is why more developed countries are vastly more secular than less developed (brown) countries
>>18134054Muslim women are not allowed to show their feet
>>18134054It's a good question, but there are answers.I mean most theologies talk about how God wants us to strive to be better people.And if there weren't problems within the natural world, there would be nothing to strive to fix. It would also suggest that the only problems are man-made in origin. Which if you believe God loves us, he wouldn't want to imply.So, while the problem of evil is a perfectly understandable reason to not believe in an all good, all powerful God; it isn't any kind of bullet proof argument to the existence of such a God.
>>18134100The ancient ideas were animism or polytheism which don't really have the problem of evil so much because they can just say that some or most of the gods are either assholes or mostly indifferent to us, like how they got mad at papa prometheus for giving us fire.
>>18134378who said thats a woman?
>>18134054the islamic allah (baal) isn't
>>18134174>posts a picture of one of the texts of the fakest cults ever spawned, by one of the most obvious false prophets of historyKEK
>>18134221Abrahamic does not exist, it's a meme smoked up by a deranged frenchman (LM).There are the Yahwist religious (Judaism and Christianity) and then the mohammedan cult (revamped baal worship).Both groups have almost nothing in common, except that the second group took a bunch of names (for different characters) from the first group.
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