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"Saville" |
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06 Oct 2005 06:52:10 PM |
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Is God a benevolent deity? |
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp
to lay its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, so that, when
the grubs emerge they can eat their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Saville.
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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| Title: Re: Is God a benevolent deity? |
06 Oct 2005 07:14:14 PM |
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"Saville" <saville@uk.com> said:
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp
to lay its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, so that, when
the grubs emerge they can eat their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Saville.
The wasps would think so.
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "GoDrex" |
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| Title: Re: Is God a benevolent deity? |
06 Oct 2005 09:46:41 PM |
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"Jim07D5" <Jim07D5@nospam.net> wrote in message
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"Saville" <saville@uk.com> said:
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp
to lay its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, so that, when
the grubs emerge they can eat their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Saville.
The wasps would think so.
--- Jim07D5
w.a.s.p.s think so too
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Is God a benevolent deity? |
07 Oct 2005 06:54:36 AM |
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On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:52:10 +0000, Saville wrote:
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp to lay its eggs in
the body of a caterpillar, so that, when the grubs emerge they can eat
their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Saville.
Theists say that God is infinitely good, yet allows evil to exist in the
world for various reasons (it builds character, etc). You could argue
that God is infinitely evil, and allows some good to exist, for the same
reasons. You would not be able to tell which was which.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Is God a benevolent deity? |
06 Oct 2005 09:18:34 PM |
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On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:52:10 GMT, "Saville" <saville@uk.com> wrote:
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp
to lay its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, so that, when
the grubs emerge they can eat their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Saville.
They're too busy bickering over why this imaginary being kills
hundreds of their babies, to worry about caterpillars.
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| User: "Santolina chamaecyparissus" |
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| Title: Re: Is God a benevolent deity? |
06 Oct 2005 09:59:49 PM |
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Saville wrote:
How can anyone believe in a God that programs a wasp
to lay its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, so that, when
the grubs emerge they can eat their host alive?
Does this sound like a benevolent deity?
Hell, this is one of God's nicer tricks. At least a caterpillar has a
primitive nervous system. For examples of true barbarity by the Cosmic
Sadist look at how he set up mammals to treat one another.
Of course, you can expect some apologist idiot to interject here that
it's man's fault that lions eat zebras alive. God didn't want zebras
to suffer horrific, agonizing deaths, nosiree, it's all due to our
human disobedience.
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