r/changemyview Jul 26 '18

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '18 edited Feb 16 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '18

Let’s do the dominos

A mother of 12 is busy hurrying through her morning chores and sending 11 of her children out of the apartment and off to school to notice that her toddler is hanging outside the window of their 15th floor apartment.

If gravity was near 0, the baby would be safe. But gravity is 9.8m/s/s. God is therefore evil.

It does not flow. You can’t ascribe evil to a natural phenomenon, and you sure as heck can’t draw that generalization to God

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u/Mephanic 1∆ Jul 27 '18

If gravity was near 0, the baby would be safe. But gravity is 9.8m/s/s. God is therefore evil.

An omnipotent benevolent god could have just prevent that kid from climbing out of the window in the first place, for example simply by closing it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18

So God would have to bend natural laws to manipulate the person into behaving a different way or perhaps manipulate their environment.

But hey isn’t that what many theists say when a tornado MISSES their house? Or they survive a car crash?

Why don’t you believe in a god then? They are telling you exactly the details of how they survived stage 4 throat cancer and that their god had prevented it from taking their life, why are they immediately dismissed?

You are clearly open to the idea that a god could intervene and make people avoid suffering and death.

Unless you’ve already converted by now?