• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Redefining ‘good’ to whatever it is you speculate may be cooking in Zeus’s noggin isn’t going to dodge the Epicurian paradox, it just changes it to god can’t be all three of 1) all-powerful, 2) all-knowing, 3) all-whatever-the-fuck-word-god-chooses-to-use-to-label-the-concept-of-the-thing-we-call-‘good’.

    That’s like arguing that the thing you’re looking at right now isn’t a screen, because maybe god calls it a chipmunk instead.