The Case For An Evil God [Youtube playlist] - if I wasn't atheist already, this would do it!

I think videos #3 and #4 sealed the deal for me. I hadn't heard of half of that shit, but the bit about making people eat their own children stood out as spectacularly evil. But, there's so many great points that come later, too, I just kept watching and kept being surprised by how much there was to say and how well he said it.

It also never really occurred to me that an all-knowing, omniscient God never has anything to learn. Ever. I always thought if he could see into the future, his actions don't make much sense, but Christian apologists always make the stupid counterargument that just because he can see into the future doesn't mean he always does. And they will go on to cite scriptures which may suggest (to an idiot) that God chose not to see the future for whatever insane reason. At this point, I had to give up talking to these people because that seems like a pretty air-tight argument (to an idiot) and you can't convince them otherwise. But now, once you realize that God never had to learn anything. It's not a matter of just choosing not to see the future; he already knows and can't not know. So, that means the Bible is blatantly not making sense when it suggests God feels regret or is surprised, etc. Since God is eternal, He was present when everything was created, so He has all knowledge of all things since the beginning. Also, since He is not limited to time, He exists in the past, present and the future, therefore God never had to learn anything and God can't forget anything. And the Bible says so: God has all knowledge; He knows the number of hairs on your head and He knows your secret thoughts and true heart, He has created all things and is the substance of all things, the alpha and omega. He doesn't learn, never had to learn, because He always knew everything.

So there is no logic at all in the Bible story. He sums this up wonderfully (the whole insane story) in video #8: What Was God Thinking? After that, I was surprised he still had me interested by #9 discussing the fact that we don't really have free will, which makes the whole idea even more ridiculous.

The logic of the fundamentalists is completely torn to shreds by the end. I do not see how they could think otherwise.

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