{"id":6788,"date":"2014-12-07T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2014-12-07T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:11:20","slug":"discussing-dawkins-god-and-evil-triablogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/discussing-dawkins-god-and-evil-triablogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing Dawkins, God, and evil @ triablogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"triablogue - Tuggy vs Hays on Dawkins, God, and evil\" href=\"http:\/\/triablogue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-problem-of-evil-is-trivial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6789\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Dawkins\" width=\"437\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins.jpg 640w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins-420x375.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins-460x411.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard-Dawkins-90x80.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><strong>At the triablogue, I&#8217;ve been discussing<\/strong><\/a> with Steve Hays issues arising from this quote from <strong>Richard Dawkins<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have never found the problem of evil very persuasive as an argument against deities. There seems no obvious reason to presume that your God will be good.\u00a0&#8230; Most of the Greek pantheon sported very human vices, and the &#8216;jealous God&#8217; of the Old Testament is surely one of the nastiest, most truly evil characters in all fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hays opines that <strong>&#8220;The problem of evil is an abject failure,&#8221;<\/strong> which I take to mean a wrongheaded, flailing objection which doesn&#8217;t deserve a serious answer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"discussion at triablogue\" href=\"http:\/\/triablogue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-problem-of-evil-is-trivial.html\" target=\"_blank\">I disagree&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the triablogue, I&#8217;ve been discussing with Steve Hays issues arising from this quote from Richard Dawkins: I have never found the problem of evil very persuasive as an argument against deities. There seems no obvious reason to presume that your God will be good.\u00a0&#8230; Most of the Greek pantheon sported very human vices, and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/discussing-dawkins-god-and-evil-triablogue\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discussing Dawkins, God, and evil @ triablogue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,6,8,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-complaints","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}