Some people seem to have an acutely Manichaeistic viewpoint, where, if you're not "for God", you're in league with Satan, or are at minimum duped by Satan. With these people, simple atheism instantly makes you evil. This tends to upset atheists---it's a grossly unfair libel by association.
It seems to me that the evidence for a personification of evil is far weaker than evidence for God. I mean the "there must be God because snowflakes are beautiful" argument is not entirely vacuuous---there are snowflakes, and they are beautiful, and behind that beauty are physical laws whose origins are not entirely understood.
But evil---I don't doubt the existence of evil---is done by people. There is, it seems to me, far less evidence for a supernatural agent of evil than for a supernatural agent of creation. In fact there is no such evidence whatsoever. So why do people believe in a personification of evil?
To root out evil, isn't it better to understand its true origins?
2007-11-21
02:30:58
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