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[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember this one with the caption “but if you stop it it’s going to be unfair for the people that already died”

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Gotta love a suttle shame that caption has

[–] bobby_hill@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is literally ~~1984~~ COVID19

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Literally all Capitalism

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

An impossible decision.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You are an omniscient and all powerful God.

You create someone who is tortured and killed in a war at the age of 2.

You are a benevolent God because you helped that person experience the full spectrum of what life has to offer.

The 2 year old did not acknowledge your supreme authority because you did not give it a developed brain to grasp the concept and so they burn in hell for eternity, never able to fully comprehend what happened to them. Their entire existence is one of suffering and unexplainable agony.

You are a benevolent God.

[–] bobby_hill@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"God is good, therefore everything God does is good."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If god is all-knowing, he knew I would grow up an atheist. If god is all-powerful, he hasn't done anything about it. So I guess he's okay with it.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, no, it would be wrong for him to do anything to interfere with your free will! But it's totally fine for his worshipers to do so.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because you uhh, you have to make the choice? Even though God, if the being is all knowing, and all powerful, could set up conditions for every human being that ever existed to come to choose tobelieve in him, should he actually desire that.

So either, he doesn't desire it, can't do it, or doesn't know.

If he doesn't desire it, it doesn't matter. If he can't do it or doesn't know, then he is not God, and it doesn't matter.

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[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I took a quick poll of people tied to the tracks, and a majority reported that:

  1. I'm good.
  2. Please get us off these tracks.
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hahaha, thank you.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. He’ll take me when it’s my time.
[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
  1. He works in mysterious ways.
[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Plus, he also knew you wouldn't accept him even before he created you.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

God only kills people he knows will be evil

Just remember next time you see a make a wish kid that they are literally worse than Hitler

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude blood cancer kids are worse than Hitler. Do you know how many times I'm watching Rick and Morty and I get interrupted by the make a wish foundation? It's infuriating.

I mean, Hitler was a bad guy but he did kill Hitler!

/s

Holy fuck that post is dripping with sarcastic and it still hurt to write.

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[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Didn't Hitler killed a lot of gay men? How many gay men has the make a wish kid killed? Check mate, Atheists.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

I brought a question like this up in a church. It was not well received.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

No, because you define "evil" as "against your will", and "good" as "anything you do".

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Stop judging me by how I play Rollercoaster Tycoon >:(

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus, as said omnipotent creator you leave only highly questionable 'evidence' of your existence

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If we're talking about Yahweh specifically, he even left evidence that shows he went from a god in a pantheon to the current supposed "one and only" god.

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[–] gabrielhidasy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You forgot the "they accept you as the creator, and you let the trolley hit anyway"

[–] remotedev@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

It's just part of Your plan

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then condemn them to endless suffering and torment if they question you.

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[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

He'S nOt EvIl, He SaVeS yOu!

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

if only it was just death by trolley... but no no.. ists actually burning for the eternity in a fiery pit of lava and ash, you know, love.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

That's what happen when you make up some entity to be responsible for everything including suffering and shits

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Is the real riddle about not being powerful enough or smart enough to spell omniscient correctly?

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