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    I consider human life sacred

    Like the lives of those cut short by denying treatment so CEOs and shareholders can make more money?

    only God may judge us

    Oh, fuck off. If God exists and actually cared, he/she/they would have “judged” the guy a long time ago for introducing needless suffering and cruelty.

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      only god may judge us

      Is a great argument for jury nullification. Because that will allow for god to decide the shooters verdict.

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      god is the most cruel entity in the entirety of the bible. kills the most people, causes the most suffering. how anyone can read that book and come away with a positive view of that beast is unfathomable.

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        I agree, but that wasn’t quite the point I was trying to make.

        The moderator was on a moral superiority high-horse by suggesting that “only God may judge” a guy who served as the judge for other’s lives through complacent inaction and encouraging policies that put personal gain over humanity.

        The only way that argument wouldn’t have been hypocritical is if he agreed that God was a cruel bastard, and I don’t think that was the case.

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            Indeed.

            Note that I’m not claiming anything, just pointing out the traditional philosophical parameters of what-is-or-isn’t-‘god’.

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          It is impossible for a being to be omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent given the amount of suffering in the world. They can only be two of the three at most:

          Omnipotent + omniscient = Knows about evil, can stop it, but chooses not to.

          Omnipotent + benevolent = Can do something about evil and wants to stop it, is too oblivious to on a large scale.

          Omniscient + benevolent = Knows about evil and wants to stop it, is powerless to do anything significant about it.

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            Yeah, that’s the way most people see it.

            As it happens, people don’t generally talk about it very much. For some reason.

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              If they’re believers it’s because god is “good” no matter what he does or allows to happen.