Sunday, July 13, 2008

Evil Trilemma

Epicurus's trilemma says:
1. if God is willing but unable to prevent evil, he is not omnipotent
2. if God is able but not willing to prevent evil, he is not good
3. if God is willing and able to prevent evil, then why is there evil?

The #2 is most favoured in Abrahamic religions. It is forbidden to imply that God is "not good" although God is all powerful, omnipotent and all able but would not prevent evil however much you pray. Why?

1. He cannot foresee the future and so He needs to test the humans
2. He is having fun winning His bet against Satan (whom also He created)
3. He is bored
4. He enjoys suffering and burning flesh
5. He needs to be Godly, so He needs His "creations" and "subjects" to tell Him that (ie. ego massage through extensive praise aka. prayers)
6. He needs fuel for his flaming theme park (Hell)
7. Because He can!!
8. He loves desert dwelling camel fuckers so much
9. He actually is NOT good (ie. Evil!)
10. Maybe He is just a figment of our imagination that we bet everything on, with the hopes that God actually gives a shit about us at all

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i'll go with 10.

Golhaabo exists
Golhaabo is evil
Therefore God doesnt exist.

QED