Sam's God

I thought of how redundant it would be to write about Harari again, seeing that I could write some other defender of evil, I almost wrote about Sam the atheist Harris, but then I began to feel nauseous.  He is an over-generalizing simpleton made big by his YouTube presence.   He is not all that intelligent; if I could I would sit down and have a discussion with him, and set his a__ straight. If I could get through to his preeminence I would make such a challenge. From what I have seen Harris tinkers with theodicy or the problem of evil, couched in complaints about the actions of “the God of Christianity” (or “the God of the Old Testament”  the more proper way to say this is the God in the Hebrew Bible).  Harris also complains that a God who would be all knowing and all powerful wouldn’t “allow” natural disasters, like tsunamis to occur, for example. These sorts of arguments are not in any way new.  Theologians and philosophers for many years, from times of old i.e. the ancient world, from Aristotle to Augustine to Pascal to Voltaire, there is nothing new in these types of questions.  Harris writes books, treatise to Christians that are chocked full of his notions (which are borrowed from theologians and philosophers, he does not even mention.  Harris acts as if he crafted these ideas. HIs books are replete with weak arguments and poor examples. Go ahead and watch him and be dazzled by him.

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Anonymous said…
It does seem to be a variation on MacLeish's theme, "If God is God, He is not good. If God is good, He is not God."
24 July 2023 at 14:48
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