I mean, to be fair, if there was a god like the ones Christians claim to have, it most certainly would be evil. The funny thing is you can’t use the Problem of Evil argument on a dystheist so they’re one philosophical argument better than your run of the mill theist.
(Edit: my auto correct made the christian god plural and I’m keeping that phrasing out of spite, haha)
It really fucks me up how anyone with more than two brain cells can read the bible and not immediately see how fucked up it is. I’m certain people turn to religion out of social despair the same way people turn to drugs.
Dog that’s literally why they indoctrinate their kids so early. Private religious elementary with a church run youth group after school, “vacation bible school” over summer break, the whole nine yards. A healthy adult is a lot more likely to realize the inherent problems before they dedicate their entire lives to being delusional.
It’d be neat if religion was for kids and adults were just in on it.
I believed in Santa longer than I believed in God. That tells you something.
Well Santa doesn’t have such a big paradox associated.
“Okay, so hear me out here. Say there is a group of people. They’re misbehaving. Do we drop a nuke on them?”
“Heavens, no! God says to be kind to everyone.”
“Ah, I guess the people he turned into salt and drowned and struck with lightning didn’t count?”
The least he could do is clean after himself.
It is said that religion is a natural antidepressant. Religiosity spiked after the Christchurch earthquake, for example: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0049648
I wonder if solar eclipses have that effect.
What if people just say they believe more to be more likely to collect aid.
What’s a dystheist?
Someone who believes that God exists and is evil.
I have the feeling the ancient Egyptians thought a little like him. All their gods seem to be kinda evil
Dystheist or (less commonly) maltheist.
A maltheist hates god
That’s a misotheist.
Not to be confused with a miso-theist, who believes god exists as a form of soup.
This isn’t equivalent.
This person believes in a god that is evil or malevolent.
Atheists argue that there is no god that is either good or evil
I don’t believe there is a good god nor do I believe there is a bad god … or a child god, or an intelligent god or a dumb god.
I just don’t believe there is any god
Atheists argue that there is no god that is either good or evil
Depends on the flavor of atheist, in my experience. I’m an atheist, but I’ve never argued that there is no god, because how the hell would I know that?
Some use the term “agnostic atheist” to describe this kind of atheist, but I’m of the mind that it doesn’t need the qualifier “agnostic” since atheism is simply lacking a faith in any god, in contrast to antitheism, which is the active belief that there is no god. Antitheism is, ironically, a belief system rather than the lack of one.
Pedantically, agnostic atheism means that you don’t assert you know there isn’t a god (“I don’t believe there’s a god”) vs gnostic atheism having a positive assertion there definitely isn’t one (“There is no god”, usually followed by some logical argument).
Antitheism is the position that theism should be opposed, not what you described and it’s a philosophical position (which could be argued is a type of belief but that’s straying from the topic).
