Date: Wed, 13 Dec 95 11:20:44 EST
From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates)
Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates)
To: revs@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: [Fwd:  Re: Fw: God and atrocities]

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 15:17:48 -0700 you wrote:

>Regarding the request for information on God and atrocities, in my Sociology of 
>Religion course I refer to an article by Mackie which deals with this 
>fundamental flaw in Christian theology. Christian theologians generally
>agree that the following statements are true: 
>
>God exists
>God is omniscient (all knowing)
>God is omnipotent (all powerful)
>God is is benevolent (prefers/intends goodness over evil)
>Much evil exists in the world (moral evil, suffering of innocents)
>
>
>Criticism of the above belief system: One of these statements must be false for 
>the belief system to be logically consistent. Which statement, then, is 
>incorrect?
>
>This criticism is answered by theologians in several different ways, which I 
>will not list here unless there is more interest. In any case, none of the 
>theological answers is satisfactory because each answer invalidates one of the 
>other statements. 
>

but unfortunately your reasoning is flawed, but that flows from a
Eurocentric perspective..(i.e. either or ) an alternative perspective
-Afrocentric - recognizes parodoxes...what you have identified is just
that a parodox...where diametrically opposed constructs can be
reconciled within a single paradigm.....



"Only when lions have Historians will hunters cease being heroes." 
African Proverb

UMOJA, 
Still in the struggle

Rodney D. Coates
Director of Black World Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology
Miami University 
Oxford, Ohio - 45056

PH: 513-5291235

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