Last week’s class was about whether God cares about or ignores evil. Today’s class deals with the question “Doesn’t God do evil?” Skeptics look at the Bible and challenge that God actively does evil things. Richard Dawkins , the famous and infamous atheist Scientist is well known for his oft repeated quote about the God of the Bible. “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal , genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.“ Richard Dawkins has great experience in calling names but he’s very bad at intellectually rigorous and philosophically sound arguments. As challenging as his complaints sound at first they are quite weak. Even atheists point out how bad they are. At...
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