The problem with the argument is that theists can easily get out of it. They can simply claim that omnipotence does not mean a being can do EVERYTHING. Omnipotence means that a being can do anything logically possible.
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I’ve been thinking lately about how many people seem to hold their beliefs the way you’d hold a team jersey…
You have probably encountered this slogan in an online debate, usually deployed with the air of someone delivering a knockout…
Few arguments in the atheist’s toolkit are as famous — or as frequently misused — as Epicurus’ Problem of Evil….
When I wrote about this topic years ago, I argued that religion was a virus of the mind, but that politics was the bigger problem — that divisions driven by tribal political loyalty were doing more damage to the world than any church. I still believe the first half. I was wildly, embarrassingly optimistic about the second.
Lately, I have set the science books aside and turned back to philosophy, the field that has fascinated me for…
