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    Christians: Is there anything, and I really mean anything at all, that God could do which would make you?

    reconsider whether he's good? Suppose he did the most heinous things to vulnerable people, like children, would you still call him good? Or does anything go? suzie the pilgrim - So you're saying anything goes? Literally anything? Sam - You may not have noticed it, but you clicked the...
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    Christians: What's the difference between God saying anything he does is good and, say, me saying the same?

    What makes one more valid than the other? And please don't say power because which party can beat which in a arm-wrestling match has no impact on the goodness of the parties. The fact that someone is more powerful than someone else says nothing about goodness. Mike Hunt - This is a...
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    Do Christians deny we have innate desires?

    Really, now, you must appreciate that free will is a kind of simplified model? Think for example a choice between eating a fruit and eating a festering carrion. You really believe the choice all comes down to free will, and that you're free to choose either? If you've ever been close to carrion...
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    Do people who think that a lack of afterlife argues for callousness have it backwards?

    Why would an afterlife give life more value? I think it would give life considerably less value. In his 2008 book, "The Blank Slate", the Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker writes (p.105-106): "The recurrence of evil acts committed in the name of God shows that they are not random...
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