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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Why does he allow them to exist in the first place? He created them and their thoughts.

Satan's influence you say? So Satan is more powerful than god?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Can't speak for everyone. But for myself, the world and humanity was created with free will and it's up to us to choose good vs evil. God only has dominion over the heavenly afterlife and the hellish afterlife is forced to exist on the principle of yin and yang. There can be no good without evil.

For context I consider myself agnostic but was born roman Catholic and base my morals on the teachings that everyone was created equal and forgiveness should be shown to those that can be helped. Forgiveness isn't a requirement in the cases that someone willingly chooses evil in the face of morality over and over. (Putin, Hitler, Trump, Netanyahu, serial violent criminals, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

God: you have free will

Also God: you'd better make the choices I dictate or you'll be punished eternally in the most unimaginable hellscape possible.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't believe in a spiteful god, but sure man, go off I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is catholicism we’re talking about.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Catholicism teaches that God is all forgiving and loves unconditionally. For as many flaws as the Catholic Church has or has had, they've generally been the Christian denomination that's preached forgiveness the most to my knowledge. Maybe I'm wrong.

And I was talking about my beliefs growing up in the Catholic Church not Catholicism as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, as a lapsed one myself, I believe they preach it as they need it the most, as the self proclaimed representatives of the creator of the universe would, when happening to be historical blood thirsty, wealth hoarding, human trafficking paedophile harbourers they are at their political core. Regardless, forgiveness is a necessary and helpful human value which religion did not invent, much like all of the moral arguments in apology of religion. If it works for you, thats fine. My position is also based on having grown up in it.

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