Posted: Jan 20, 2015 11:58 pm
carl wrote:tolman wrote:Indeed - and it's worth stressing the point that it's not simply a matter of a god having to try and impose its Divine Will on naughty humans who don't want to listen.
Numerous doctrinal disputes and splitting of churches has frequently happened as a result of clearly entirely sincere people honestly believing they have some connection to a deity praying and thinking and coming up with different answers to the ones which other similar people have got.
It is not surprising that humans disagree, wouldn't you agree?
Are you being deliberately obtuse or what?
The point is that your god is an utter failure at preventing these, often violent, disagreements by providing a clear and convincing message.
carl wrote:Disagreement amongst humans carries no weight whatsoever regarding the existence or nonexistence of God.
No, not on it's own. But coupled with the claim that this supposed God is omnipotent and benevolent, it does.