But a lot of ppl don't think this way! They think: I believe in a good god. Therefore he only does good. Anything which seems bad can't be
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Then they either don't think about the bad things & are happy with a vague sense of goodness which doesn't need bringing into focus.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Like my 'sort-of-Muslim-but-mostly-spiritual' friend who says 'I don't need to know the answers. I know God & I know he is good.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Or they find a way to interpret bad things as good - context, metaphor, translation. Like Augustine & his reading with charity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
So you end up with a tolerant, liberal, compassionate person who defines themselves as the believer in a cruel, harsh, oppressive god-figure
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Replying to @HPluckrose
my base ideology... if everything were perfect/good, would we grow as free thinking beings? We would be forever children.
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Replying to @JoshDWalrath
I don't see why. We generally get more compassionate, more thoughtful & more liberal when we are secure and provided for.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I guess I have always experienced more positive growth when I have been in challenging times.
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Replying to @JoshDWalrath
Snowflake generation cld support ur hypothesis.Somewhere tween abject terror of imminent painful death&complete security then?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
it is all a simulation anyway. We actually exist in a perfect world and we are just training to be functional humans here.
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