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Ep. 93 Is the Classical God a Psychopath?

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Is There a Big Difference Between Human Psychopaths and the Impassible God?

The impassible god is consistently better at being a psychopath than humans are. The classical theist will try to get out of this by saying that evil is a privation of the good, and god is only directly and immediately causing good things. But i'll just say that the privation account of evil does not really change the situation. We all have to ask ourselves difficult questions about the entailments of our conceptions of god.

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