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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     OP - October 03, 2014, 10:12 AM
    Just came across this.


    Which reminded me of: https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/ssehon/pdf/sehon-skeptical-theism.pdf


    Quote from: bowdoin.edu
    So even if skeptical theism worked as an answer to the argument from evil, and even if it did not land us in moral paralysis, it would undercut any reason we have to believe in God based on the beauty of the world




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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #1 - October 03, 2014, 10:37 AM
    It's not a soft and bearable mystery though. It's a jagged, jarring conflict involving all of the most profound suffering in the world. To live with it comfortably is obscene.

    The fuck is he talking about?
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #2 - October 03, 2014, 10:43 AM
    Bayesian updating > sceptical theism

    That is to say that the evidential problem of evil is more likely on naturalism than on theism.

    Imo, the guy making the God is mysterious argument has (unsuccessfuly) attempted to argue the reverse.
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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #3 - October 03, 2014, 10:51 AM
    The problem does not exist outside of theism.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #4 - October 03, 2014, 10:59 AM
    ok
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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #5 - October 03, 2014, 12:41 PM
    Right?
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #6 - October 03, 2014, 01:03 PM
     Yeah, I would agree, though my thoughts are nascent.
    I've never really thought of the problem of evil outside of theism.
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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #7 - October 03, 2014, 01:06 PM
    The evidential problem of evil is generally an argument against classical theism anyways, I'm yet to see a probabilistic argument from evil against nontheism. It would be a category error to ascribe this argument to a belief system which isn't characterised by the assumptions of benevolence, omnipotence...

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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #8 - October 03, 2014, 01:24 PM
    Yeah, it's a problem with how certain deities are defined. A worldview that makes no appeals to deities has no such problem.
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  • The problem of evil & moral paralysis
     Reply #9 - October 03, 2014, 01:29 PM
    Yeah, which is why the skeptical theist's (poor) response is becoming more popular.
    I love Sehon's idea of moral paralysis.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
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