tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post5151336241519542187..comments2024-03-28T13:10:44.555-04:00Comments on Iliocentrism: The truth about 'the problem of evil'Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-59785441425598526432024-02-11T13:13:05.981-05:002024-02-11T13:13:05.981-05:00When God-deniers “cite the Problem of Evil against...When God-deniers “<i>cite the Problem of Evil against theists</i>“, they are not illuminating an invalidating/falsifying contradiction in “theism”. Rather, they are holding up their own false parody of “theism” and asserting that thereby they have exposed an invalidating/falsifying contradiction in “theism”.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-65691102469146440492015-05-13T20:44:51.216-04:002015-05-13T20:44:51.216-04:00it's about human (individual and collectively)...<i> it's about human (individual and collectively) hypocrisy concerning evil.</i><br /><br />Yes, that I can agree with completely, and I do see the point. I think I once heard a conversation about evil with the Jewish talk show host Dennis Prager, and someone wanted to blame God for terrible things like murder and rape, and Prager said that's humans creating the evil, not God. <br /><brNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991410496107221875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-31197664150488448082015-05-13T07:34:23.040-04:002015-05-13T07:34:23.040-04:00It's not meant to provide the total answer for...It's not meant to provide the total answer for the existence of evil. It's not even *about* evil, per se.<br /><br />It's about the so-called argument from evil. To be more precise, it's about human (individual and collectively) hypocrisy concerning evil.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-35636035684306282662015-05-12T23:25:57.908-04:002015-05-12T23:25:57.908-04:00I think that answer, while I agree with it to a po...I think that answer, while I agree with it to a point (though not perhaps in the same way you do as a Christian) is not complete and does not provide the total answer for the existence of evil. Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991410496107221875noreply@blogger.com