Keith Collyer
2 min readSep 22, 2021

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I was going to stop responding but this made me feel sick. You cannot seriously believe that. That smug self-righteousness is frankly disgusting. It's the "no True Scotsman" fallacy writ large and is unbecoming of anyone who spends more than a moment's thought.

<quote> To be specific, God can’t intervene for every act of evil, that would be impossible, for evil according to God is all sin, and sin takes place trillions of times a second in some form. </quote>

So not omniscient and not omnipotent, then?

<quote>And just like your atheist brethren, you’ve neglected to answer the question of outside of a spiritual force of evil, what inspired Hitler’s actions, or the guy who rapes the kid next door then blows his head off when surrounded by police.</quote>

Because they are people. There is no need for a "spiritual force of evil", that is just multiplying entities needlessly. You haven't answered the question either, you posit some force with no evidence. I'd like you to meet the invisible intangible dragon I keep in my garage. It's as real as you force of evil.

<quote>Paul, according to himself and Luke, was reached out to miraculously by Christ</quote>

Well, that's plausible, isn't it? Paul says it and Luke says it because Paul told him. Wow, yeah, that's beleivable. If I told you that Jesus Christ had reached out to me personally and told me that all current forms of Christianity are full of shit you wouldn't believe me. Why believe such an obvious narcissist as Paul saying the same thing? That would be inconsistent.

<quote>And you still haven’t explained to me how a 100 billion light-year sized entity that evolved conscious, intelligent life and displays complexity, order, morality, purpose and is built on physical laws that are accurately described by sophisticated mathematics can exist without God</quote?

I don't need to. Could it have happened without god? Yes, the physics and maths says it could. Could god have done it? Yes, but has left NO EVIDENCE AT ALL.

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Keith Collyer
Keith Collyer

Written by Keith Collyer

I’m a husband, father, grandfather, retired Systems Engineer, bassist, cyclist and will write on any and all of those things as the urge takes me.

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