23,000 children will starve to death today.HT: Pete Roode
Another 23,000 tomorrow.
Another 23,000 the day after…. Another….
If God doesn’t listen to their prayers, what makes you think he will listen to yours?
WLC opens right up with an equivocation fallacy on the meaning of "God":
Dr. Craig: Historically, atheists have argued that there is a logical incompatibility between the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 hours ago
Most all reasoning about issues we care deeply about is motivated reasoning. This is emotional reasoning! Can we ever divorce reasoning away from emotions?
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 hours ago
As long as one can imagine a possible reason for God allowing suffering — no matter how implausible — then God's existence is logically compatible with evil, and therefore, the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 5 hours ago
Secular morality doesn't pretend these dilemmas have perfect answers. What it offers is honesty: we weigh harms, accept responsibility for our choices, and refine our judgments...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 5 hours ago
That's where "emotional reasons" come into play: they can create an opening in that mental bunker and allow thinking to come in. Once thinking is put in motion, it will...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 5 hours ago
In your example, no choice is “morally clean”—but we still have to make one. The question then becomes: which action minimizes unjustifiable suffering, avoids arbitrary cruelty, and...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
Even the Spock character, as written, has emotions. And not just when the plot requires Spock to undergo a personality change. Even when Spock is in his default "logical" mode, he often...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
How can you convince someone if you do not get to talk to them at all ?
One option is to be ready for opportunities when they arise. Lots of "them" are more than...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
Imperfect as it may be, a secular morality built on human reason is still infinitely less problematic than one built on religion. I will let my friend ChatGPT formulate my answer for me:...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
The problem with deontological approaches to morality (trying to reduce morality to a finite list of rules) is that there are endless edge cases, exceptions, conflicts of interest, etc. For...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
Inflicting pain is not considered wrong when it is necessary for self-defense, or in situations where it serves a greater good, such as necessary medical treatment or in the case of...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 9 hours ago
1- Humans feel pain, and inflicting pain on others is wrong.
The problem is, who decides when its wrong? Or even, so wrong, it can never be justified. Inflicting pain is...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 10 hours ago
Objective morality can be built on two axioms : 1- Humans feel pain, and inflicting pain on others is wrong. 2 - Needless suffering is just that : needless, and nothing else. No scripture, no...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
I don't think "Plantinga's Defense" is as solid as that lying douche William Lame Craig makes it out to be. Free Will, if we grant it, only accounts for human caused...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 12 hours ago
Great! I don't think there is a separate emotional problem since people are not unemotional creatures like the character Spock. It's definitely an emotional problem, but it's part of the same...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 15 hours ago
Thanks, John. It did work after a while.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 15 hours ago
Sorry, try Google. William Lane Craig the emotional problem of evil. Thanks!
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 15 hours ago
I read an article about some people in Kentucky. Although Trump's policies had not benefited them materially, they are more enthusiastic about Trump than ever. I came away with the impression...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 18 hours ago
I think the main obstacle to convincing a believer that their religion is purely man-made is their refusal to think about it at all. How can you convince someone if you do not get to talk to them...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 20 hours ago
That link is not working. It says "Unavailable" or just goes to a blank page. Edited: It worked after a few more tries. Reading that stuff gives me vertigo. Pure obfuscation. Trying to...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 21 hours ago
Heres the problem in a nutshell:
Problem of Evil (part 1) | Podcast | Reasonable Faith https://share.google/LC9bhs...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Atheists are humans, and so will be influenced by their particular emotions as much as theists are. But atheists have the considerable advantage that they also have the full weights of science and...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
It's said there is an emotional problem to evil, as opposed to an intellectual one, and that atheists are persuaded by their emotional reasons not intellectual reasons. Run that and see!
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Note that bafflement is often a System 1 response (in the dual-process model of human cognition, "System 1" produces our immediate, effortless, unreflective, emotional,...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 1 day ago
I might add that the above chat session I linked stands as something of a counterweight (in my view, at least) to the endless scare stories and nay-saying we hear about AI. While AI in its current...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago