CosmicJoghurt said:Meh, I "deny" the Abrahamic God - it's impossible. It's self contradicting, for fick sake.
I deny a magical space fairy who lives in Venus and controls the universe using a dildo as a wand - in that, although I can't be 100% secure about it (do not question the holy Fetish Fairy), I think it's so ridiculous, and there is such a lack of evidence that I can completely dismiss it. As simple as that.
And I deny any personal deity, for that matter. 99.9999% is enough for me. Remember, it's the same as 100%.
What is self-contradicting about the Abrahamic God?
I mean a literal contradiction about him..
Like believing in A and NOT A.. Not resolvable.
Let's say he's all powerful and all knowing and all good.. But he can't create a stone that he can't pick up.. And he can't make a square triangle.. and break the laws of logic.. He has to be logically coherent..in existence and behaviour.
If one asks, if he's all powerful and all knowing, why doesn' t he remove evil from the world. And if one goes further and says God would it's a contradiction to allow it. An answer could be it's not a contradiction because perhaps the evil fits into some grand scheme of things that we can't envision.. One could ask, can't he change the scheme to be just as good, but without the evil.. But maybe there are certain absolute truths.. to do so would be like making 1=2.. like creating a stone that he can't pick up.. He could have his reasons.. Maybe it's better for the evil to exist, and shortcutting it isn't as good overall. We may not know why.. But I'm not convinced we can say it's a contradiction for him to allow evil in the world. To say there couldn't be a greater good. To say that there couldn't even be a reason we cannot envision. I think the problem of evil makes him unlikely, but not that it's a logical contradiction making him impossible.