[Blogs] Illness disproves Ontologics

[Hank]

Illness disproves Ontologics
         

I feel like crap today.  The nose, the head, the chest -- it's all bad.  

Yes, we can use illness (or natural disasters, etc) to show that an all-powerful deity isn't up there, but today my stuffy head turned to Ontology, probably due to all the cold medicine.

The ontological argument basically states that if one can imagine a most perfect entity, that such an entity either exists or does not exist. Since existence is more perfect than nonexistence, then the most perfect being must therefore exist.  A poisonous little gem of confusion.  Many have offered their counter arguments, but my runny nose makes the point.

You see, if disease exists, and a perfect god exists, then that god bears responsibility for the disease.  BUT, if a deity does not exist, then he cannot (obviously) be responsible.  It is this responsibility, indeed for all things bad, which makes an extant god LESS perfect than a fictional one, for a deity which created all this crap in my head would have some explaining to do (a murderer is less perfect than a non-murderer).

So beyond all the arguments of Dawkins and Descartes, this damn cold which has infested my family proves the point in the simplest of ways -- a fictional deity is more perfect than a real one, given the real problems we have.




         

http://www.atheists.org/nogodblog/index.php/2008/11/20/illness_disproves_ontologics
         

[The White Coyote]

God created colds so that we could pray for seven days and be miraculously cured!

[Storybook]

If we cursed god for seven days, we would still be cured by the end of the week!

[Ungodly]

I prefer ridiculing religion for 7 days.  Of course I don't absolutely requires the cold for that.

[The White Coyote]

I knew a kid in Nam who got brand X and prayed for 7 days and died. Dumbfuck belonged to some weird religious bullshit cult and refused treatment. Of course he would have died anyway, but he could of at least postponed it awhile and died at home instead of some shithole hospital ship.

[Ungodly]

I gather that Brand X is some sort of an illness?  Maybe an STD?

[The White Coyote]

Yeah. Brand X is a form of genetic mutated clap that showed up in Nam and can't be cured with antibiotics. Quite a few guys got it and died from it, but uncle sugar wouldn't recognize it or even admit it exists. It's basically just gonorreha gone wild. They rounded up all the hookers who had it and "quarantined" them until they died. Any GI that showed positive wasn't sent home and some it is rumored were listed as MIA. Another dirty little secret of the Viet Nam war.

[Ungodly]

Clearly this was God's judgment of heterosexuality in action!

[Storybook]