Comments by "Patchwurk" (@patchwurk6652) on "PragerU"
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@alexamaya3208 No, you're thinking about it wrong here.
If God exists and evil still exists, then that's a contradiction.
But if there's no God, then presumably there's also not the "Objective Good" of God either. Subjective morality would more or less be the law of things (excluding the possibility that some other system is in play, this is humoring the assumption that it's either Secularism or Christianity, no other options allowed).
Sure things would still be "Good" or "Bad" by the same culturally subjective rules we already tend to base our developed senses of morals off of, but at the Grand Scale? There wouldn't really Be objective Good or Bad as far as the universe is concerned. It would just be "Events that occurred."
Like they're still be good or bad based on the perceptions of intelligent minds observing or caught in the event and the benefit or detriment caused by the events. There just wouldn't be some "Objective Moral Truth" dictating it all, just the laws of physics and mortal minds trying their best.
...Basically there's really no practical consequences and nothing really changes about our day to day with or without a God, y'know? Good or evil will still be pretty much coming down to the perspectives of the sapient minds asked, the world pretty much looks and behaves the same as it currently does, and the greater universe continues to do its thing. Same as it seemingly does from your perspective in a Universe With God. You know, the whole free will thing, subjective morality would exist in the Christian viewpoint if God is, as you claim, pro-free will.
The real decider is what happens after you finally die, but there's presently no real way to answer that one and come back, and I'd kind of hope most people aren't insane enough to volunteer as tribute to test it.
The Secular answer to the "Problem of Evil" is just that evil is a concept invented and defined by thinking human minds trying to contemplate the world around them and trying to enforce a sense of order. Evil is effectively whatever we say it is, hence why the definition and view of what "Evil" is changes and fluctuates from one person to the next, just like "Good" seems to mean something different from one person to the next.
i.e. "What problem? Evil's just subjective."
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