Apparently, you can ask a question from a Hindu, a Christian, an atheist (Richard Carrier: my new man crush btw) and a Muslim and get an answer. I submitted a question about sin several weeks ago to the Christian, Timothy McCabe, and so far - no answer yet.
In the meantime, here's a great one from today. It's the classic Euthyphro Dilemma that can never be satisfactorily answered as it correctly identifies the flaw in believing that a god is omnipotent.
"Can god make a rock so big he can't lift it?
Answered within the Muslim worldview by Shaheed Williams
This is the problem of thinking of God in human limitations and attributes. Let me ask you this: If you were God, would you? Why would God do that? Yes, from His attributes is that He is able to do all things. But He is also the Most Wise and it's not from wisdom to do such a thing. There is nothing like Him. If you can imagine it, then it is not Him. When you stop trying to place God in the realm of what your mind can comprehend, divisive questions like this won't seem logical to ask."
Don't you love it? William's answers that God is the most Wise, and then states that it would not be "wise" for god to do such a thing, even though god could make a rock so heavy he couldn't lift it. (So much for being all-powerful.) Hey, can god make a hot dog so big he can't eat? Here's this sinner, Williams, deciding for his god what is wise and is not wise while shifting the goal posts. Arrogance much? The question has nothing to do with god's intelligence, it has everything to do with god's potentiality and if that potentiality is omnipotence, god should be able to create a rock so big that he couldn't lift. Of course, an omnipotent God should still be able to eat that hot dog or carry that rock, but then god has not created a rock so heavy he could lift or a hot dog so big that he could eat.
How about this, if god is so all-powerful can he simultaneously exist and not exist? That's the problem with omnipotence and this why omnipotence fails.
How about this, if god is so all-powerful can he simultaneously exist and not exist? That's the problem with omnipotence and this why omnipotence fails.
All day long, Christians, Muslims or Jews will insist to you that God hates gays, hates science, hates women, hates children, hates society, hates you, hates abortion, hates birth control, because their religion and worldview is grounded in this apparent understanding and comprehension of God's mind.
Yet, when you confront them with an obvious contradiction about their "all-powerful god," what kind of an answer do you receive... shut the fuck up and don't think asshole.
