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I hate strawmen.

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  • Flax@feddit.uktoComic Strips@lemmy.worldApple (SMBC)
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    10 hours ago

    That’s the King James Version, an old translation, the meaning of “evil” has changed. A better translation of it would be “calamity” or “disaster” which God does do to punish sin.

    Sure, God had knowledge Satan would turn against Him, but you could also give birth to a child with knowledge that it’ll have a disability. That’s not the same as giving it a disability.






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    1 day ago

    If there’s no objective morality, then how could you claim such a thing is wrong?

    Also the only person who I found would do that was Dr David Wood who is a literally and self confessed psychopath who converted in prison.

    The argument for why atheists can be good but not have good is because everyone has the knowledge of Good and Evil







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    2 days ago

    Huge strawman, so many flaws here:

    It wasn’t an apple. If you’re trying to be an atheist and argue against God, then how can you argue that strangling a cat is immoral. Sure, because of the curse, we can be moral, but you cannot believe in objective morality as a concept. Secondly, if another animal strangles a cat, it’s generally not seen as immoral as animals cannot commit immoral actions. Humans were likely in a comparable situation according to the narrative. They did know that eating the fruit was bad. They were told not to. It’s essentially the first instance of someone being told “you had one job” and blowing it. Hurricanes and other natural disasters are a product of sin and evil being unleashed into the world. Did you know that the poor and marginalised are usually hit worst by natural disasters? And it’s not God who’s impoverishing or marginalising them. In fact, we have enough resources on the earth to share.