If God must be omniscient, God doesn't exist
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
66 points (80.0% liked)
Atheist Memes
5534 readers
62 users here now
About
A community for the most based memes from atheists, agnostics, antitheists, and skeptics.
Rules
-
No Pro-Religious or Anti-Atheist Content.
-
No Unrelated Content. All posts must be memes related to the topic of atheism and/or religion.
-
No bigotry.
-
Attack ideas not people.
-
Spammers and trolls will be instantly banned no exceptions.
-
No False Reporting
-
NSFW posts must be marked as such.
Resources
International Suicide Hotlines
Non Religious Organizations
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Ex-theist Communities
Other Similar Communities
!religiouscringe@midwest.social
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’ve heard theists argue that presenting god with paradoxes, like asking him to make a square circle, does not nullify or place limits on him. But damn it’s such a losing rhetorical position, even if it sounds reasonable, it shows what shaky ground the entire bogus enterprise of religion is based on. “My god is omnipotent! Except for… you know… things!” If they were just a little mor imaginative they could use an argument about extra dimensions to show how god can create square circles.
Any reasonably powerful god could make a non-Euclidean spacetime in which the points equidistant from a central point also form 4 straight line segments of equal length that meet at right angles.
I also think the classic rock so heavy it can't be lifted fails, for the same reason that an omnipotent god could clearly commit suicide, if it wanted to (and once it did, it would no longer have the capability to perform other actions).
The omniscience thing is harder, because of things like incompleteness theorem, but I don't think I can really describe what it means to know everything in the first place. "Able to provide a true, and comprehensive answer to any question for which a true, and comprehensive answer is possible" doesn't seem to give any contradictions, but as you mention has the feel of dancing around all the hard issues.