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“The whole problem of a god that is claimed to be omnipresent and omnipotent as well as ‘good’ is somewhat belied by its apparent need to create ‘evil,’ sickness and suffering, all the while watching it.
To say that this is some sort of plan in a ‘perfect’ creation is ridiculous.”
-- Robert Pratt
Why is your god so feeble and insecure that it needs to hide behind you? Or are you assuming it can’t take care of itself?
“If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weakness? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced?” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why do you think you have a power your god does not?
When you preach at me, you are, by definition, admitting it’s not all-powerful.
Just because your god can (supposedly) torture us for not feeding its hunger for adulation, doesn’t mean it’s not malevolent for doing so.
Why is your god limited to the blood magic superstitions of the tribal desert dwellers of the time? For that matter, since there’s entirely no human corroboration it happened at all, why involve human methods at all? Why would a celestial, timeless, formless god need to process its anger in the mortal realm? Why not spawn a “soul” in heaven imbued with human knowledge, torture, kill it, and then have it re-spawn in heaven again? The results would be identical. Or, you know, not kill anything at all, and just get over yourself.
Believers describe gods who don’t want to be known. Then threaten you when you find this far-fetched.
The best refutation for any god is the qualities its own adherents ascribe to it.
It’s not our fault they keep describing their gods as being incomparably stupid.
God’s responsibility is bounded by your morality.
You can’t spell “omnipotent” without “impotent.”
Brainwashes a pharaoh. Won’t stop by my place to say “hi.”
A perfect god who needs to be worshipped cannot exist, by definition. An omniscient god who bestows free will cannot exist, by definition. An all-loving god who will punish you for eternity in a fiery pit for temporal slights cannot exist, by definition. These are self-refuting attributes.
If your chariot is made of iron, “god” can’t defeat you.
