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[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 127 points 7 months ago

It's one of my go-to arguments against intelligent design.

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago

That, or God's an arsehole, which all things considered...

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 151 points 7 months ago

β€œIs God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 22 points 7 months ago

Here's another:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isiah 45:7

In the land of intellectual adulting, however, people who know their history know the cult of YHWY, originally a single god from what was the Canaanite pantheon, clear evidence of which is still present in even the Old Testament, subsumed the mythological roles of protector and catastrophe, hero and villain, creator and destroyer in its path to monotheism.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago

From what i've saw from videos on religious archaeology, the "definitive" yaweh is an amalgamation of 2 or 3 gods into one, which explains why his personality varies wildly from text to text. Vengeful asshole here, incompetent god of war against iron chariots, all loving elsewhere

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