Plato was correct when he said that the poets should not lie when writing that God should be blamed for the injustices in the world. I see this as the main reason for atheism among my peer groups. They see or suffer ‘injustice’ and so conclude there is no God.
actually, there was a complaint about ascribing evil to ANY God; this was a criticism of the Illiad, as I recall. Polytheism still includes a "divinity principle" that is unitive, the only real way around this is ditheism, which posits two divine forces, one good, one evil
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Ah OK so it was more on Pandora's box? I misinterpreted that. Manichean theology is similar to good Vs evil yes?
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yeah, the issue is that some people were okay with the gods doing whatever, being good and evil, but others felt ascribing any evil act to any of the gods was blasphemous. Manicheanism or ditheism is an attempt to logically construct a metaphysics to fix this issue.
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