re: Politics and Faith

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But not at all implausible for anyone who believes in an omnipotent and omnipresent God.

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Nothing is impossible once you claim the metaphysical, but that does not in and of itself make a given claim plausible.

And you’re still left with the problem of a god who knew the failures and suffering of his creation prior to its existence and decided to proceed anyway. Carried to its logical end, we’re left with the inescapable conclusion that anyone who ends up in hell is there because of god. He created certain people knowing they would suffer eternally in hell, which is clearly a fate worse than never existing at all.

Now, such a god COULD exist. That doesn’t mean it’s a likely or desirable reality, and it’s certainly a reality which we have no evifence for.