LarTanner
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Joined: Dec. 2015
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I feel like I will shortly be banned again from UD for my fun at the Vividbleau/Problem of Evil thread:
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LarTanner (April 5, 2020 at 12:49 pm)
Responses to responses:
* Jerry at 38 says, “Why don’t you define evil since you use it a lot.” Jerry, I refer you to “The Concept of Evil” at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries....t-evil. I trust the definition provided here will suffice for you.
* Bornagain77 at 39 believes I am hand-waving off the “devastating problems for atheists in their denial of the reality of morality.” Bornagain77 further wants to know what, exactly, an atheist means by “reality.” My response now is to remind Jerry and Bornagain77 that the OP is about whether the problem of evil is more a problem for an atheist or a theist. I am showing that it appears to be much more a problem for an Abrahamic theist. To your strange insistence here on defining terms, I say, “Ah, you think definitions are your ally. But you merely adopted them; I was born in them, molded by them [. . .] Definitions betray you, because they belong to me!”
* Truthfreedom at 40 makes a riddle whose answer must surely be “Jesus.”
* John_a_designer at 41 proposes the matter rests, first, on the declaration that “Evil exists,” which is naturally consistent with a non-theist position–i.e., “morality is ultimately human invention.” Perhaps, though, some believe inventions do not exist. John_a_designer also poses the question, “What are you (or we) going to do about it [i.e., evil, which exists]”? John_a_designer concludes, rightly, that “To recognize (evil) and do nothing about it is immoral.” Hence, a great many theists in every generation cry, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” I would say this nails the case for the problem of evil being more a problem for the Abrahamic theist. |
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LarTanner (April 5, 2020 at 1:03 pm)
I admit I am amused.
* Bornagain77 at 43 says “At the heart of LarTanner’s irrational claim that morality must be illusory….” This claim has not been made by me.
* Jerry at 44 says “Try making it into a dictionary definition that all can agree to and not point to a long website.” This is moving the goalposts. You asked for a definition; I gave you one. End of story. I urge you to move forward and make a point. |
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