WOTMQ: Evil God
Philosopher, Stephen Law, has become semi-famous in theist/anti-theist circles for his hypothesis regarding an Evil God, and what evidence we'd need to be convinced that a maximally Evil God does not in fact exist. It's a very clever argument which theists hate — choosing instead to attack the metaphysical possibility of a maximally Evil God, which is irrelevant to Stephen's argument. I've put my own twist on things at the end of the video, which I think you'll enjoy.
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Comments (9)
Basically with an evil god the world would resemble the classic vision of hell. But that means a good god would be overseeing a world resembling the classic vision of heaven! ...or maybe not the classic heaven, because that would be hellish.
GAWD is NOT evil. In fact? He said if You don't believe that? He'll torture You for eternity (like a GOOD guy) lol 🤣
Maybe a month before becoming an atheist, after 33 years of being Christian and 15 years of not going to church anymore because all it did was upset me, I had a philosophical breakthrough. The punishment of Hell for such things as self-abuse, disbelief, premarital sex, blasphemy, homosexual activities, and a host of other victimless crimes did not comport with the claim that God was all good, all just and all loving. It DID comport with the notion that God was a jerk, a sadistic, unfeeling, cruel sociopath corrupted absolutely by absolute power. In other words, Evil. It was only a short step to conclude "I was being lied to."
Not yet!
Well-said.
When I became an atheist I would often joke that God is actually evil. Never expected it to become a thing. Mind you, I'm not a philosopher. Or smart.
Apparently, you're smarter than you think!
Seems a clever person might use such a hypothesis to get Christian apologists to come up with arguments (or simply complaints) that work just as well against an all Good God. If no such arguments can be made, then the hypothesis stands--that an All Evil creator is just as likely as an All Good creator. If, however, we get some really good arguments against the concept of an All Evil creator, then those same arguments work just as well against the concept of an All Good creator.
A hellish hypothesis! 🤣