If you'd read more than 3 books of fiction (the Bible can be only one of them), you'd probably have cultivated a level of imagination that suprasses this meme.
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In Buddhism, the concept of God as a powerful creator is not central. The question of "why terrible things happen" is addressed through the teachings of karma and interdependence. Terrible things occur due to the collective actions aka karma of beings, influenced by ignorance, attachment, and aversion, rather than a deliberate act of a deity. Thus, from a Buddhist perspective, the most aligned answer would be that terrible things happen because of the causes and conditions created by sentient beings themselves, rather than any of the options listed.
My option is that god isn’t all knowing and all powerful as a single being, but that the best approximation of the word god is that it is being itself. There is no end to it. It’s simply the process by which all possible permutations of existence are briefly manifest over eternity. Maybe there are components of being that have moral tendencies, but is being itself moral?
I think the Pope and Cardinals would all choose B and then proceed to schpiel about how this life is a trial and he takes each of us at precisely the time of his choosing for good reasons inconceivable to mere mortals bla bla bla
they'd pull out Job. And basicaly say "you're too stupid to understand. to limited. How dare you question god? that's not your job, now get on your hands and knees and clean my shoes with your tongue. Oh and give me your money because I need it more than you and god says you have to. You didn't earn it anyway, it all came from god, too."
Please let me remake this:
A. He can't, so he is not worthy being worshiped.
B. He doesn't want, so he is not worthy being worshiped.
C. He causes them, so... uhm, actually maybe? Depends, is He doing terrible things to me and my friends, or my enemies?
D. He doesn't exist, so he is not worthy being worshiped.
Side comment - C is obviously excuse to let us do terrible things to them. If You like being evil, surem that do work.
welcome to religion. A tool for the elites to get rubes to do terrible things to their enemies while paying you for the privilege.
What, do anyone pay minor sheeps?
last time I've checked, was that sheeps had to pay (as totally free, optional donations, but no less than price-list).
Except god is a hypocrite and will judge you for it for not following his rules.
Amazing how much death and destruction have come out of arguing over who has the best Invisible Friend.
nO bUT ThEyRE jUSt LyInG iTs aLWAyS aCtUaLlY aBoUT GreEd
Yes, we know, but why would they think that's better?
Religious people be like:
he won't, because he doesn't interfere
He causes them, because it's the circle of life
He can't, because doing so would cause chaos
He doesn't exist, because you don't believe
I think they also say, he causes them to teach us things.
Yeah that little kid that drowned in the pool really learned her lesson, I guess...
A: He can't.
Dude forgot to add himself as admin.
He's up there raging because his own system hit him with the ol "new password can't be the same as the old password"
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BeCaUsE hE's MyStErIoUs!
This is, entirely unironically, the central tenant of the Catholic teaching on the subject.
It really does just boil down to "You can't adjudicate the morality of the Divine." And, for the most part, its a line of reasoning that hierarchical social structures condition us to accept. God is just the CEO of the Universe. If you accept that your boss at the toxic waste and murder machines factory is Beyond Good and Evil, believing it about God is downright trivial.
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According to Isiah 45:7 it’s C.
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things”
That's just seems shitty
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A: then he isn't god.
B: then he isn't good.
C: then he is evil.
D: the truth.
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Growing up as an agnostic atheist, I loved the Epicurean argument. Now as an adult, I feel compelled to ask the definitions of the words Good, Evil, and God before talking about things.
I think most of the arguments surrounding these topics involves complex use of metaphors and abstract concepts that people can spend lifetimes defining, but are happy to argue about in a short form without a mutually agreed definition.
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The god the Abrahamists have chosen to worship is a weather and war god. So he is a vengeful dick.
When the Israelites were still polytheistic they worshipped, besides this war god, a sun god and a god of fertility in the Pantheon. Yet they’ve chosen to solely worship the war god. Says a lot about them.
It's just that the model of divinity as an lawful authority is complete bullshit, and has nothing to do with spirituality
Its clearly because clearly god has realized the best thing ever is isekai so he made earth and made us all isekai MCs. The terrible things that happen just give sus unique back stories when we get isekai'd so we all get to be unique MCs. /s
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God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
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