Would gods be redundant without evil?

Question

The Greeks have chasnged gods.

If gevil has no effect, why have the commandments. Try not to be idiotic in your replies please.

The Greek gods were deserted.

Evil is described as bad in one of my other questions.

So religion was created to protect the moralistic sensible from idiots? Their own followers? lol

Answer 1

...And would heaven be redundant without hell? Same meat, different gravy. But while it's obvious that there are different levels of good, bad, the ugly and unadulterated evil (often found in the vestry), there is apparently only one heaven and one hell - nothing inbetween. So what happens to the atheist who goes through life devoting every spare minute to charity, but insults god by not accepting his existence? Or the loving christian, but who has been nicking money from the church fund all his life? Christians make one particular claim which gets right up my true grit. 'Our god is good and is responsible for everything wonderful in the world - if anything bad happens it's nothing to do with our god.' So I guess, yeah - if it wasn't for evil, their god wouldn't have much to be smug about, would he?

Answer 2

Would a God(s) be needed without evil?

Good, provocative question.

Man, as a whole, needs to be lead; he needs to feel that life is leading somewhere and that the reality we experience every waking moment is with purpose.

Without the feeling of purpose, one must come to grips with the premise that living life is an absurd comedy without structure. If this is the case, then we act based on what we feel is right at the time, and how it may affect Others. This leads to be conscientous about every action, thought, and process one has with every being or object one comes into contact with: from a family member to even a sunset. Most people cannot comprehend this form of understanding, and the prevailing angst that it causes in a being that will never subside.

So therefore, the social construct of God was created. He was created as an effective anesthetic for the masses. His mythos was derived to supereced this angst, and give the weakened soul a feeeling of purpose. To be Good. (Never mind that the ideas of Good come from cultural influences by the Nobel class of 2,000 years ago and we are alla slave to it, that is a different discussion).

To influence this feeling of Good, one needed to know what not to do. So the concept of evil was created. A counterbalance, a system of checks and balances, a standard to judge your actions by and nothing more.

So, yes, for the weakened masses who cannot comprehend the true construction of everyday reality. there needs to be a God to grant purpose and set the values of Good. Without this Good, there would be no Evil. But, the Good can exist with without Evil, as Evil is just a term that describes anything that the religious ruling class disagree's with.

So, God would not be redundant in this case. Cultural ethics would be though.

Answer 3

Or more to the point... if gods are redundant, who would sack them, what unions would be supporting their case, and what kind of redundancy package would they get?

Seriously, though, gods and evil are both social constructions: humans have invented both concepts, so the question is based on a false premise that one causes the other.

Answer 4

No, as even if evil did not exist, there is life in its entirity to think about.
Imagine how much trouble the world would be in if everything was sorted, no wars, no disease ... eventually there would be standing room only, everyone living to 162 years old.

Answer 5

Good question, they have to do the menial things like answer prayers from grandmas tho don't they? That would occupy them for a good 8 hours of the working day?

Answer 6

in my last answer i said that we cant know good until we have experienced bad
i see bad as a different thing from evil
the opposite of bad is good
the opposite of evil is ? ... unless you fill that Gap with the word God , i dont know any other physical word that would fill it
i dont believe that we have to have evil to have God , but i do believe that we have to have experienced bad to know God is good

Answer 7

not really, look at the greeks who worshiped the moon god, or sun god or whatever else. There is no evil to the sun or anything

Answer 8

no, a god is supposed to be a creator and an omnipotent, all knowing being. Evil has nothing to do with it. With or without evil, a God would be a God, it would still be all knowing, all powerful, and omnipresent.

Answer 9

God is never redundant, evil what ever the purpose serves has no
effect on God whatsoever

Answer 10

Who says gods are good? To Satanists the devil is their god.