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“God works in mysterious ways”

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The cope that always comes across when I hear this is intesne

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imo every religion ever is a cope. All of those elaborate ideas about supernatural beings and alternate planes of existence to somehow cope with the fact that one day the good man, and the evil man, will both die and rot just the same.

It feels incredibly unjust for good men to die the same way evil men do, and for a lot of people that’s too much to handle. We as humans have such a strong sense of “fairness” that we attempted to structure our entire society around the idea of justice for all, and so by comparison nature feels cruel and unfair, you can either learn to live with that, or tell yourself really really hard that it’s not the end :) after they die the good man will be happy! and the evil man will get the punishment he deserves!

now layer that with milenia of different ideas about what qualifies you as “good” and “evil” and you’ve got religion.

This is my personal opinion, and honestly I don’t mind nor care how the other person deals with their existential dread, as long as they aren’t bigots about their way of coping.

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If there is a ‘god’ then they are a fucking asshole.

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“If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness.”

-Scrawled on the walls of a Nazi concentration camp cell

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Maybe God is studying ethics, and we are his show and tell assignment.

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You forgot the actual Epicurean belief. God(s) exist but they don’t give a fuuuuuuuuuck.

Epicurus was the first deist.

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Is there actually “free will” without evil?

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why not? you can choose to eat a banana or an apple, both perfectly non evil

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The free will is more about choosing to follow god or not. So if everything god does is good and everything they want you to do is good, you have no choice but to do those things. So you live in a perfect world but are a puppet.

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I will die on a hill that says a banana is more good than an apple.

Making the apple relatively more evil on the scale from good to evil.

Others may prefer an apple. But I guess that is their free will to choose so 😉

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I mean there was that whole ‘garden of eden’ thing with the apples…

But bananas are also kind of dangerous

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