20 thoughts on “The impotence of God”

  1. As excellent an illustration of theoidiocy as you’re gonna find.

    …and, I’d also suggest: imagine if Jesus had but as much power as a Greek Muse, and had inspired young Hitler’s paintings. Hitler’s will would have been increased, not diminished, as he could have realized in paint and canvas all those visions he wished he could but didn’t have the talent for. And we’d have been spared the Holocaust and gotten another brilliant (if disturbing) German expressionist painter to boot.

    It’s damned hard to find an “omnipotent” god more powerless or useless than Jesus….

    b&

    1. You’re forgetting the god is a sociopath and probably got a good laugh out of allowing Hitler to become a genocidal maniac.

      1. Good point. “Ha, ha. Look at that miserable wimp Hitler, trying to outdo my own genocides. What a loser. He could even build all the atomic bombs he’s not smart enough to figure out, and he still wouldn’t touch the destruction level of my Flood.”

        b&

  2. Very revealing of g*d’s awareness that the stuff going on in the brain is over his head.

    1. As a Classics grad, I’m happy to meet a Classicist here who also uses the uppercase in “Classics”. 🙂

  6. The brain dead Christian apologist would say “it’s not God’s fault for starving children, war, disease, etc. It is the fault of man because of his disobedience”. What a crock of shit.

    The Hindu would say “the person who was raped, blind, paralyzed, etc. did evil acts in a previous lifetime”. What a crock of shit.

    1. I believe the Christian apologist might also say “all these worldly evils aren’t that important because what matters is the next life, and all the suffering endured down here will translate as bonus points when the victim faces St. Peter at the pearly gates”.

      It’s quite a clever cop out, actually, if one isn’t allowed to doubt the existence of a next life for fear of spending it in a pool of molten lava.

  7. Put that in your pipe and smoke it religionists!

    G*d saying “Dude” is tooooo funny.

  8. It occurs to me that God is like those mysterious super-advanced aliens who inspire people to contact Carl Sagan: very eager to impart moral wisdom and creeds, not so eager to solve scientific and mathematical problems that should come naturally to super-advanced intellects.

    1. Who would devote their lives to solving scientific and mathematical problems, if they only had to ask and God or aliens would provide the answers?

      “God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” (Machiavelli, The Prince)

  9. If free will couldn’t be used as a rug for theodicy to hide behind, it would never be mentioned (by theologians, anyway).

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