Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoAny time you want to help out, go ahead...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up11.38Karrow-down153cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareFlyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·1 year ago If so, religious people are failing it. How so? I might have misunderstood your statement. If this life is a test and the eternal afterlife is what they seek, how are they failing it? They don’t care about a finite 90-something year life and would give it away for an eternity which is incomparable.
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThe implication I’m making is that a moral deity that allows free will might allow bad things to happen as a test for people to act morally. Religion, instead has been at the root of problems and/or stood by while bad people do bad things.
How so?
I might have misunderstood your statement. If this life is a test and the eternal afterlife is what they seek, how are they failing it?
They don’t care about a finite 90-something year life and would give it away for an eternity which is incomparable.
The implication I’m making is that a moral deity that allows free will might allow bad things to happen as a test for people to act morally. Religion, instead has been at the root of problems and/or stood by while bad people do bad things.
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