• @[email protected]
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    94 months ago

    This is sorta the beginners philosophy question. There are plenty of answers, it’s not the “gotcha” it appears to be. Those answers unroll into all sorts of branching other conversations but they exist.

    Maybe it’s because free will exists.

    Maybe there’s a greater purpose for what we call “evil” that results in more good.

    Maybe it’s a definitional thing, where “evil” to us is always going to be the most-evil existent thing so if existing evils were gone “evil” would still exist but it would consist of aggressive kitten licks or something. So “evil” can’t not exist, but it’s not because God can’t get rid of what we call “evil” now.

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      4 months ago

      What annoying when people who have no grasp of what philosophy about starting saying these statement and expect me to answer them.

      Edit: reading the comment is also annoying. When someone mention God, many assume the statement reference their own religion and draw conclusion based on it. I had someone start talking about god doesnt exist because “the proofs” are wrong, but these proofs all driven from his own religion. ( ex christian talking about statement that doesnt make sense in the bible) when I attempt to speak on higher level ( forgot all religions lets talk about god as an entity or thought ) they kept circling around to same points.

      Many people dont know how to debate or what they are debating.

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      14 months ago

      Maybe it’s because free will exists.

      Then God shouldn’t have given it to us, still his fault, OP still applies

      Maybe there’s a greater purpose for what we call “evil” that results in more good.

      Then God should have given us the understanding of it so we’re not left to question him, OP still applies

      Maybe it’s a definitional thing, where “evil” to us is always going to be the most-evil existent thing so if existing evils were gone “evil” would still exist but it would consist of aggressive kitten licks or something. So “evil” can’t not exist, but it’s not because God can’t get rid of what we call “evil” now.

      Shitty point, we have a clear definition of what these evils are currently and yet nothing is done about them. Maybe if we somehow lived in a world that no longer had the evils we see today you’d have a point but this is just a silly one

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        34 months ago

        An omnipotent being would be able to setup the universe in such a way that it could be done, anything less is just being very powerful. Its only really a problem for monotheistic religions, most with pantheons portray their gods as very powerful but not all powerful.