Yeah, I got that first one too. It's definatly tricky. I guess it's one of those ones where I didn't quite think through properly what it meant to say that "Genocide is evil" - I read it more as "I think genocide is evil" which is subtly different.
The other one I get is the problem of evil - I said both that there was a loving god and that it was wrong to alow suffering that you could easily prevent to happen. The question then is well how come God does. I'd say a couple of things to that. Firstly, I don't believe that the morals which apply to us would also apply to God - he's a completely different type of being. Secondly, what appears as suffering to us may not appear as suffering to God, who would be judging by other criteria. And thirdly (more of a pedantic niggle) I only said a loving god, not a moral one.
Basically I love things like that which really make you think about why you believe what you believe and how it all fits together :)
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Date: January 30th, 2002 09:05 am (UTC)From:The other one I get is the problem of evil - I said both that there was a loving god and that it was wrong to alow suffering that you could easily prevent to happen. The question then is well how come God does. I'd say a couple of things to that. Firstly, I don't believe that the morals which apply to us would also apply to God - he's a completely different type of being. Secondly, what appears as suffering to us may not appear as suffering to God, who would be judging by other criteria. And thirdly (more of a pedantic niggle) I only said a loving god, not a moral one.
Basically I love things like that which really make you think about why you believe what you believe and how it all fits together :)