But seriously though, if I were God, and I were good and omnipotent and omniscient, I'd create mankind and then leave them to it, and there would only be one version of that. I think.
You think humans are up to governing themselves for the greatest good; or that if not, that their freedom of choice is a greater good than the absence of suffering ?
I think the free will argument is also specious, fwiw. It seems that it should be trivial for a posited omniscient omnipotent deity to set up circumstances such that the choices all the finite beings within the context freely make combine to produce a world with no suffering.
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Date: 2008-05-07 02:58 pm (UTC)You think humans are up to governing themselves for the greatest good; or that if not, that their freedom of choice is a greater good than the absence of suffering ?
I think the free will argument is also specious, fwiw. It seems that it should be trivial for a posited omniscient omnipotent deity to set up circumstances such that the choices all the finite beings within the context freely make combine to produce a world with no suffering.