Timeline for Is there an evil god?
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| Feb 26 at 15:10 | answer | added | kutschkem | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 25 at 17:45 | vote | accept | h_undatus | ||
| Feb 24 at 17:46 | answer | added | Corbin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 24 at 8:12 | comment | added | armand | Just like the other one: nobody ever came up with a reliable way to interact with this alleged evil god. | |
| Feb 24 at 7:27 | history | edited | Mauro ALLEGRANZA |
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| Feb 24 at 6:03 | comment | added | Rushi | The three magi from the 'East' that visited the infant Jesus with gifts were (i) magicians— etymology (ii) astrologers — reading the 'star' (iii) Zoroastrian priests — original meaning ie its polysemous. It is peculiar to Christianity that the miraculous is Divine and the magical is anti Divine. Most eastern systems have a smooth transition from the mundane to occult to divine to transcendent. Its a peculiar divergence between Hinduism and Judeo-Christianity that in the latter the super evil Manasseh practised astrology, whereas in Hinduism astrology is called deivam, literally divinity | |
| Feb 24 at 5:51 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @Rushi It would be an interesting subject if you developed your final question into a separate question. | |
| Feb 24 at 4:51 | comment | added | Joshua | @IdiosyncraticSoul: Somebody else's hypothesis: Power magnifies your own (potential for) corruption. If somehow you start out with zero corruption, than even absolute power cannot corrupt you. | |
| Feb 24 at 4:14 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 24 at 4:10 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | Finally, if you believe in free will, then good and evil are our creations and not the fault of God. | |
| Feb 24 at 3:57 | comment | added | Rushi | To reckon how many "believe" in magic check the sales of Harry Potter books. More seriously everyone believes in magic... as a child (you more or less admit that yourself). Does everyone grow up? Is psychological growing up the same as physical? Much of the most significant work of psychology — Oedipus of Freud, Archetypes of Jung etc — hinge on mythology. How far is mythology from magic? | |
| Feb 24 at 3:04 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | If nothing else, this answer could probably benefit from explaining why people used to believe in "controlling one's life by magic" (or one's life being controlled by magic), and why this is not a reasonable thing to believe in the modern day (even if it seems obvious). | |
| Feb 24 at 2:51 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | I think your answer would be less provocative if you described how good and evil are human creations that are a natural response to a predator-prey relationship. Simplistically, things we want to eat are good and things that want to eat us are evil. | |
| Feb 24 at 2:39 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | On the other hand, if you believe that "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" then God is corrupt. | |
| Feb 24 at 2:32 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | Pantheism is a belief that God is everything. If this is true, then God is both good and evil and everything inbetween. | |
| Feb 24 at 2:18 | comment | added | g s | I have downvoted this answer because the argument against the existence of a benign god, the existence of witches and fairies, and the existence of Santa Claus is not, in fact, a blatant appeal to ridicule. | |
| Feb 24 at 0:36 | comment | added | Conifold | This is now called evil god challenge and there are tons of ink spilled on it, including here, Request for a philosopher/mathematician that arrives at a wicked God as the only solution to the problem of evil using formal logic. One popular objection is, ironically, the problem of good, there is too much good in the world for an evil god to run it. | |
| Feb 23 at 22:48 | comment | added | Yuri Zavorotny | Well, it's not easy to be curious in the world where people universally struggle to explain, rationally, why they believe one way or another. Just ask Socrates :) | |
| Feb 23 at 22:10 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @YuriZavorotny I consider your grammar correct. But I don't want to be curious anymore. | |
| Feb 23 at 22:06 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23 at 21:53 | comment | added | Yuri Zavorotny | Are you asking why my grammar is wrong, or why I stopped being an atheist? :) | |
| Feb 23 at 21:47 | comment | converted from answer | Yuri Zavorotny | Weel, the all-powerful creator would have to be evil, that's true. But I was always puzzled by how people, who for one reason or the other come to the conclusion that God does exist, automatically assume that God also has to be this all-powerful creator of everything. Based on what? | |
| Feb 23 at 21:46 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @YuriZavorotny Why do you speak in the imperfect tense? | |
| Feb 23 at 21:38 | comment | added | Yuri Zavorotny | For the longest time -- almost 50 years -- I used to believe that. | |
| Feb 23 at 21:04 | answer | added | NotThatGuy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 23 at 21:00 | answer | added | Julio Di Egidio | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 23 at 20:45 | answer | added | SystemTheory | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23 at 20:44 | comment | converted from answer | Jo Wehler | The argument against the existence of an evil god is the same as the argument against the existence of a benign god, the existence of witches and fairies, and the existence of Santa Claus: These ghosts belong to the childhood of mankind when people believed in controlling one's life by magic. | |
| Feb 23 at 20:25 | comment | converted from answer | Professor Sushing | I don't know what 'the' argument is, or whether, indeed, what any argument might be, but it seems to me that if there is a god, a practical-joking wind-up merchant of a god would be more in keeping with the evidence on the ground, as it were. | |
| Feb 23 at 20:19 | history | edited | h_undatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23 at 20:13 | history | asked | h_undatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |