PragerFU: God and Suffering
I think this will be the first of at least three videos. When the PragerU folks make a video on religion, they really fill it chock full of stupidity. Part one looks at the classic "Free Will" argument and why it doesn't solve the problem of evil.
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I see a build up to the ultimate apologist argument behind Brian's consistent use of "Her" as the pronoun of choice for gOD. He's laying the foundation of faith to the ultimate apologist reveal ...that it's NOT Her fault, it's just that She's got PMS! LOL
I have to thank PragerFU for their overwhelming quantities of stupid, which gives us more Brian.
It was glaringly obvious to the early Christian apologists that most of their message was nonsense, so they moved to incorporate Greek philosophy into their arguments (many were trained in Greek philosophical thinking). One of those aspects was dualism, which gave us this bizarre thought that "good an evil were opposites, you can't have one without the other." Yes, you can. Good and evil deeds are compared with "ordinary" deeds, not the opposite (Oh, Hitler could have done so much good, if he were so inclined! Hitler could have just not done evil and would have been thought of as a much better person.) The doctors have it right in their first rule "First, do no harm." They do not even have a rule that says "Always do good."
So if Gawd gave us "free will" to do evil, why does she ever intervene? Why didn't she let Laman and Lemuel kill Nephi? Come to think of it why did she station an angel with a flaming sword to keep Adam and Eve from reentering the Garden of Eden? Shouldn't they have had the free will to then eat from the tree of eternal life and live forever in their sins?