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1 Dec, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Begone, pissant.
It should be evident, I trust, that the ENTIRE POINT of the Logical Argument from Evil is to generate a SET of propositions, a Triad, Tetrad, howevermany-rad, in which “There is evil” + “there is a God” + [various things about God] ⇒ Contradiction.
That is why it is the LOGICAL argument from evil. Because it purports to find a LOGICAL contradiction between propositions.
This is not an inconsistent triad (no matter how many fake Epicurus memes someone posts):

1 God is wholly good
2 God is omnipotent
3 There is evil

If you want to deduce “there is no God” from that, you need more propositions in the set.
Plantinga’s remark is worth considering here.
Almost all the atheologians content themselves with a hand-waving “there is a contradiction here, I’m sure of it” gesture. They say that, repeatedly, but make very little effort to *show* there is one.

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Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن Profile picture
1 Dec
The argument from evil requires premises which cannot be established, such as

P1: We are in an epistemic position to know that God could not possibly have a justification for permitting certain evils.
P2: We are in an epistemic position to know what God would or would not do.
Note very well that the argument from evil requires establishing a NEGATIVE EXISTENTIAL, that is, it must prove that there is NO POSSIBILITY of there existing a justification for evil that God could have.
Note further that proving this Negative Existential “there is no possible justification that God could have for permitting evil” carries with it “there is no possibility of there being such a justification which is beyond human comprehension.”
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Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن Profile picture
1 Dec
I can break the Argument from Evil down schematically. It comes in two flavors: the logical and the evidential.
The logical form of the argument from evil claims to find an inconsistent triad in

1 God is wholly good
2 God is omnipotent
3 There is evil

But this is not an inconsistent triad. So that fails.

Next move is to add premises, and go for e.g. an inconsistent tetrad or pentad.
But that doesn’t work. There just isn’t a robust and non-question-begging set of evident premises that one can generate a logical contradiction from.

People *have* tried.

Philosophers nowadays don’t try.
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1 Dec
Found a silly thing, fixed it.
You could add an arrow off of “Then why is there Evil?” that points to a “There isn’t” box.

But there is evil.

“So?”

“So it is false that there isn’t evil.”

“No.”: line to “God is omnipotent” box.
If the atheologian insists on the understanding of “omnipotent” that God can effectuate logical contradictions, very well.

In that case, NOTHING FOLLOWS from anything the atheist puts forward.

“There is evil” doesn’t preclude “there is no evil.”
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1 Dec
@BrassVon I didn’t see this at the time.

Brass, you should know better than to cite Snopes as reliable debunking source.

What Snopes shows is that Strasser said this first. It in no way shows that Hitler didn’t say it.

The premise is “a moral man such as Hitler would never plagiarize.”
@BrassVon The proximate source is Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography; John Toland; 1976, p. 306

Toland doesn’t say where he got it, but does inform us it was at May Day rally during the Nazis rhetorical storming of Berlin.
@BrassVon Speaking like a socialist is one of the modes Hitler “kept in his suitcase.”
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Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن Profile picture
30 Nov
Which way, comics?
I remember a time long ago when I’d be excited for newest X-Men to come out.

Now, I have that excitement for One Punch Man, and nothing from Marvel or DC.

They’ve made the X-Men race supremacists and murders and worse.
Nowadays I’m glad that Captain Marvel died in 1982, because he died a HERO.

He wouldn’t still be one, if he were still alive with Marvel as it is today. The new, Danvers Captain Marvel is anything but a hero.
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26 Nov
The fact that so many people are so impressed by the argument from evil is a sign that it is a very bad argument.
“Taking the argument from evil seriously” means different things.

There is a way in which I do not take it seriously, and a way in which I do.
I do not take the argument from evil seriously insofar as I do not regard it as a strong or deeply serious threat to belief in God, not do I take it seriously as a deep, real, meaningful philosophical question.
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