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Sea Glass

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21. There is an inherent structural problem with monotheism, too --

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 05:06 PM

Dec 2019

It's hard to explain away evil and tragedy. With pantheism, you can have good gods and nasty gods to explain different events. But with monotheism either your one god is a psychpathic asshole to cause or allow such death and suffering, or else it's weak and powerless, or else Satan did it, although this one god apparently created Satan (explain that one), but there's free will, but there's also a grand plan, but you should still pray ... or something like that.

All utter nonsense.

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