The problem of evil

Hume said:
Easy. God cannot prevent evil.
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If you had even the slightest clue about religion and God, you would know that God isn't there to prevent evil. Only man can prevent evil because man is the primary source of it.

Religion only attempts to map out what is good and righteous in the hopes of preventing more evil.
 
Daylight63 said:
SO let's take one of the "classics" of the PoE: the concept of an infant with an aggressive and vicious cancer. The question is "how could an all-loving God allow that to exist?"

By your reasoning it is an active behavior of God to keep people from getting cancers. That's about the only way for this concept of "evil as the absence of good" to work.

Like your example of "heat" vs absence of heat. So by your reasoning the Problem of Evil is simply turning it into the question: "How could an all-loving omnipotent God withhold the beneficence to keep the child from suffering?
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the suffeing is the point.

God is Buddhist.
 
Yakuda said:
Malicious acts to harm other because of complete lack of good.
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If a man sees a person starving and has food to share but ignores the other person, that is the absence of good. If a man stabs another, it is not the absence of anything - it is a malicious and intentional act.

The first is the absence of good, the second is the presence of evil.

Your idea fails in a logical syllogism.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
If a man sees a person starving and has food to share but ignores the other person, that is the absence of good. If a man stabs another, it is not the absence of anything - it is a malicious and intentional act.

The first is the absence of good, the second is the presence of evil.

Your idea fails in a logical syllogism.
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Incorrect. The first is a gradiation of good. The second is the absence of good. Just like cold it only results from an absence of heat.
 
Yakuda said:
Incorrect. The first is a gradiation of good.
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In what way? Indifference to the suffering of others when one has the power to lessen such suffering isn't graduated, it is simply absent.

Yakuda said:
The second is the absence of good. Just like cold it only results from an absence of heat.
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The second is the presence of malice, affirmative evil. Taking action to cause harm to others.

It was this sort of thinking that led me to view Buddhism as irrational and nihilistic.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
In what way? Indifference to the suffering of others when one has the power to lessen such suffering isn't graduated, it is simply absent.



The second is the presence of malice, affirmative evil. Taking action to cause harm to others.

It was this sort of thinking that led me to view Buddhism as irrational and nihilistic.
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you have a fucked up take on Buddhism.

:truestory:

Zionists always hate Buddhism.
 
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