[lbo-talk] Atheism

[Chris Doss]

god's track record, taking into consideration
such things as millenia of faminue, plague, war; the holocaust, conditions
in africa today, AIDS, and etc, set him apart as the standard bearer of a
world class league of screw balls and failures with shrub as a star member.
infinite and unknowable indeed.

R

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Well, this does imply that human happiness is the highest measure of "good," 
which neither a Christian nor an ancient Greek for that matter would 
believe. (CF. Aristotle when he says off the cuff that the highest area of 
study cannot be man, as it is obvious that there are things more important 
than human beings).

I'm trying to remember -- I think Luther solved the problem of theodicy by 
arguing that since God's goodness is unknowable, obviously our puny human 
understanding of the term what it means when we say that God is "good." I 
can imagine a race of highly evolved cows would refer to the existence of 
hamburgers as evidence against God's goodness.

I am not a theist by the way and am neither defending not attacking any of 
these theological positions.

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