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Remember kids, God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and created EVERYTHING; including evil and suffering.

This means that God created evil, knowing full well what that meant for us humans. He knew Adam was going to eat the apple, and lie to him about it, but still got angry that he was lied to; so angry that he damned the rest of humanity as punishment.

So if God created evil, and knew what that would do for all of humanity, and it was a part of his great plan to do so, then God must also be evil.

You can’t have it both ways. He can’t be good and not evil if he created evil. He also lets it happen. He can’t be good and not evil if he knows every mistake we will make, and knowing the impact of our mistakes (i.e., the other people it affects). This makes God culpable for our sins, yet he is not held accountable for his inaction.

3. Make parasites that eat baby eyeballs because why not?

Abrahamic religions make a lot more sense if God isn't omniscient and he's using our reality to understand suffering in a way that an all-powerful being can't

It's all part of God's plan

My responses to that nonsense include:

"Damn, that guy's a real sadist."

"Which god? My money's on Zeus, he's always cooking up this type of shenanigans when he's trying to trick some woman into fucking him."

"Our Lord the flying spaghetti monster would do no such thing."

Feel free to contribute some more ammo.

You all are talking about God’s existence, and I’m just over here wondering if I found my therapist’s account.

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4. profit

With the way things are going, maybe we should stop letting god plan things. He kinda sucks at it. In fact, letting god plan anything seems to be as bad as not planning at all.

If there were a God, I'm convinced he doesn't have a plan for each of us. "A plan" directly contradicts free will, which is absolutely confirmed in all versions of the Bible and necessary for Faith.

So: the plan would have been: set up the initial conditions, ensure uncertainty and randomness, and let the simulation run. Omniscience can be constrained to awareness of the current state of everything (although, even God would be constrained by Heisenberg's principle), yet still not know the future. And the ability to knowing the state of everything still doesn't imply the intelligence and ability to calculate, simulate, and project the future state of anything - which, with randomness, becomes increasingly difficult with each second into the future you project, even if you have a good clipping algorithm to ignore things unlikely to impact Nick.

No, God would merely be a voyeur. Since he's omnipotent, he can affect change, so he could help Nick... but that would violate Nick's free will and the premise on which Faith depends. And the Christian God is strangely dependent on Faith; Faith is given an unreasonably high importance.

In any case, there's no plan other than maybe some tweaks here or there to nudge things in a certain direction. They're all macro changes, too. Not something as trivial or personal as preventing the soccer mom from running over 6 y/o Luna's beloved cat that Luna grew up with. With chaos and entropy given free reign, Luna could develop a brain tumor in the next couple of years and die young; why bother save her from the trauma. If she's been good enough, she's just going to end up in heaven, lobotomized and permanently blissed out, and forced to spend the rest of eternity singing praises to God, anyway.

According to the Bible. If you're a practicing Christian, feel free to explain where I'm wrong about any of this. Extra points if you can avoid resorting to the fundamental inscrutability of God's purpose.

I feel that I have no option but to say "Fuck you", being so called out by this.

"This is literally what they believe"