Answers to Job - by Bentham's Bulldog
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In which, among other things, God explains to Job why skeptical theism is improbable
Inspired by this piece by Scott Alexander, particularly wonderful on account of the wonderful Tweets at the end: Job cried out “God, why do you create a world with such evil. With babies burned by napalm, with tortures, murders, rapes, with fires that burn little old ladies, with horrifying mass murderers, with animals suffering and languishing for millions of years.” And the lord spoke to Job from the whirlwind saying “WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID THE EARTH’S FOUNDATIONS? WHEN I MADE THE WORLD, FULLY FROM MY INTELLECT ALONE, WHEN I FINELY TUNED THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT, PROVIDED THE…
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