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#762 - "Theism is Irrational" (Rationality Rules REBUTTED)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Moral Justification of God's Creation of a Universe

I bring up the thought experiment I posed to Alex O'Connor in our debate on God on Pints of the Quinas. Most people would say that would be good in spite of the foreseen suffering. So then why can't God create a universe that has foreseen suffering in it? The fact that God can give conscious creatures, be they human or non-human animals, infinite happiness will outweigh any kind of evil they might experience in this life.

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