Wednesday, June 22, 2011

my criticisms toward my own arguments against god.

these are the common objections i receive toward my arguments against god, and my responses to those objections and criticisms.
WARNING: some of these are incredibly stupid.
note: for every one of these arguments i have heard "you cant question god" my response to this is in the first one.

1.common objections and my responses: "you cant question god" why not? "because he's god" thats a circular argument.

"god is too great for us to comprehend" how would you know hes incomprehensible if we cant comprehend him? "we can only comprehend what he has shown us through (insert religious text here)" and how do you know those are the only things we can comprehend? "because its what we have" but doesnt the (religious text) give clear details about your god? "yeah" well then what is there not to comprehend? "whatever he hasnt given us" well i'd say from what i can see and what you think a god gave you that your god doesnt exist.

"who are you to define perfection?" do you agree with my definition of perfection? (they either say yes, no or it doesnt matter whether they agree, responses to all three will be provided)
"yes" then you have no objection.
"no" then explain where you think im wrong, if you cannot then you have no objection.
"it doesnt matter whether or not i agree because god is the ultimate judge" if you have no definition of perfection, much less a definition that wouldnt agree with mine, then who are you to question my definition of perfection?


2. "it doesnt matter if he knows what we will do, its about the choice we make" free will is impossible in the face of predetermination, and if he knows everything and if we had a choice somehow then it wouldnt matter because he already knows what we are going to do.

3. "how do you know what an infinitely loving being is capable of" i dont know for sure but i can use induction, i have the ability to love, i would never create a place if eternal suffering, therefore i infer that an infinitely loving being would not do such a thing. "YOU'RE TRYING TO COMPARE YOURSELF TO GOD!" at this point the conversation ends. they also say "his love is incomprehensible" i say: then how can you say im wrong if neither of us can comprehend him? and i think the best way to try to comprehend something like that would be to use our observations of what we know love to be and we can therefore infer what infinite love is like.

4. i havent heard any objections to this one yet.

5. "how can you you say what god would do" i cant say for sure but there are far better methods by which a god could achieve a goal of informing people of his existence other than telling people to write a book. therefore i find it incredibly stupid for a god to do that.

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