It is an age old argument, the loving and all powerful god. An impossibility from beginning to end of concept. The argument from evil is a good explanation of why god can cannot exist in the loving sense or the all powerful at the same time. This distributor of catholic doctrine that fox news loves so much gives a silly and quite ridiculous explanation of hell and gods "love," when he isn't nearly injuring himself avoiding answering questions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2YwiIJwGZo
On Jan 16, 8:59 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > God is Universally Loving? Have you talked to a Haitian lately? > Have you read my "Justification of God's Violence" thread? > > http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/browse_thread/thread/7601a92... > > Care to revise your statement? > > On Jan 16, 10:49 am, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm searching for philosophical forums where I can perhaps start to > > study things more systematically. As well as this > > one,http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/andhttp://www.philosophyforum.com/ > > look promising, and there are a couple of others to look at as well, > > although I haven't yet approached any except Minds Eye. > > > Athttp://www.philosophyforum.com/, in particular, there is a forum > > for New Member Introductions. I am vaguely thinking of posting > > something like what follows below. It's a very rough first draft, so > > please be charitable even while being critical! > > > I believe in a God who is immanent in each of us, universally loving, > > and an absolute moral authority. I have no > > knowledge or opinion as to whether this God created the universe, or > > is omnipotent. > > > I don't think I have ever believed in any supernatural events, not > > since I was a child and believed in Santa Claus. I think I have > > always, since then, been inclined to believe that no supernatural > > events occur or ever have occurred, > > although, as with creation and omnipotence, I don't claim total > > certainty about this. I do believe in paranormal phenomena, and I > > think that Jung's concept of synchronicity provides ample room for > > such phenomena to occur, within what is called coincidence. > > > Philosophically, I believe that human beings are minds, not bodies, > > and although of course human minds /have/ human bodies, I think that > > it is not only a gross error, but causes incalculable harm, to imagine > > that any amount of knowledge of human bodies will ever give human > > minds even the smallest knowledge of other human minds or of > > themselves. This belief is independent of my belief in paranormal > > phenomena (which is an intellectual embarrassment). > > > I haven't studied philosophy formally, but I think I would like to > > learn something about about Plato, Meister Eckhart, Locke, Kant, > > Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Emerson, Bergson, William James, Mill, > > Freud, Jung, Merleau-Ponty, Gabriel Marcel, Heidegger, Sartre, Popper, > > Feyerabend, and Chomsky. > > > I'm pretty much open to suggestions, although I'm chronically and > > quite deeply depressed and it's quite a struggle > > for me to get through any books at all. What little education I have > > is in pure mathematics, although even that is incomplete. I have also > > done a fair amount of unsystematic reading, over the years, on the > > subject of mental illness (so called) and psychotherapy. > > > In a word, I suppose I'm a mystic: a budding one, an extremely > > undeveloped and confused one, lost in a world that has seemed dark, > > strange, and threatening for a very long time.
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