From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 9th, 2004 07:38 am (UTC)		(Link)

you are wrong

From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 18th, 2004 05:23 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I have no idea how we would know the "good" if it's opposite did not exist. To say that God could have created a universe in which all choices are "good", is quite baffling to me. To evaluate one thing over another and then decide on one is what we call choice. If in a world where all choices are "good", we'd still have to decide which choice is best. And of course, if we chose the "lesser good" it could be called the "bad" or evil choice.

I think sometimes humans project their morality onto a completely amoral situation. You've given hurricanes, earthquakes etc. etc as an example of "natural evil". But that's a human judgement. It is only classified as an "evil" if it affects man. A hurricane that blows itself out over the ocean isn't evil, it's just a hurricane. A better argument is for the so-called evil of animals killing each other to eat. There again we are making a human argument. When animals kill each other, they are not making a "moral " choice, they're hungry. Actually, animals are not cruel when they kill. They try to do it as quickly and efficiently as possible. We also have no idea what the animal being killed is feeling. For all we know, there's a sense of resignation and acceptance.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: February 25th, 2005 07:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

I agree--you're basically just making some pretty bald-faced statements, and holding them out as proof. The idea that the beliefs of all theists worldwide will be crushed in five or six sentences is a bit of an odd one, frankly.