-Removed-Where did viruses come from?
Demonic interference with the earth’s biochemistry?
Thoughts ...
I'd be careful about reading too much into this virus. The same ideas were floating around about the black plague in the middle ages, and the Spanish Flu. We found the cures for them, and I have little doubt a cure for COVId - 19 will be found as well.
Good things, sometimes take time.
@dj2becker saidDive alluded to this. There's a well known problem with having an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. If God is omnibenevolent then there is a problem of evil. In the case of malice one might argue that malice is on the part of an entity that is not God and that those possible worlds where the malice of mortals is ruled out are worse than those where it is not. This argument does not seem to apply to accidental suffering. So we are faced with one of three possibilities, the atheistic one, dropping one of omniscience (God cannot foresee accidents), omnipotence (God cannot prevent them) or omnibenevolence (God is not morally perfect), or trying to argue that a world without suffering is worse than a world with suffering - which seems counter to our intuition. I think believers will tend to rule out the atheistic option and not be happy with the notion that God does not have the standard set of properties assigned to him, I'm curious how one would attempt to justify the notion that the best of all possible worlds is one where suffering is almost universally experienced when it seems that worlds without suffering are made possible by the assumption of omnipotence?
My guess is something else did. I don’t think it follows logically that an omnibenevolent being would create a virus.
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-Removed-Progressives don't believe in a literal satan. No, their belief is that the world is overpopulated, and as such, we had it com'in!
Their satan is random chance and our only deliverance is depopulation.
So in a way, whether you are of faith or a paganistic Progressive that dances naked around a camp fire at night conjuring demons they tend to see the situation kind of the same. It was a form of punishment either way.
@whodey saidWhat does it actually matter to anyone, aside from you, presumably, and perhaps to people who share your beliefs, that you believe in "a literal Satan"? What does it matter with regard to dealing with COVID-19 that you believe in "a literal Satan"?
Progressives don't believe in a literal satan.
@whodey saidSurely you welcome the fact that policies in a large developing country like Indonesia over the last 50 years have slowed population growth partly by bringing the fertility rate down from 5.5 births per woman to around 2.3? Surely you welcome the benefits to society this has brought in terms of things like health and education? Or are you a supporter of rapid population growth and overpopulation?
Progressives don't believe in a literal satan. No, their belief is that the world is overpopulated, and as such, we had it com'in!
