Tony Atkinson
1 min readFeb 5, 2025

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It boils down to this. From the moment that the Spirit of God "moved upon the face of the waters", He knew, in detail, exactly what was going to happen from that moment to the Final Judgement. That means that the moment He said 'Let there be light', incaclulable amounts of suffering and pian would be visited on trillions of people over many ages at the end of which the vast majority of those people would be condemned to Hell and even more pain and suffering. Most of them without choice or opportunity for Christian redemption.

I respectfully ask, then, in what Universe would any good, moral being have said 'Fiat lux'? Any being with a shred of empathy, pity or even common decency would have said "No, the salvation of a few is not worth the unchosen suffering of so many. If I can't do it differently, I won't do it."

Now if God is truly omnipotent, He could have done it differently. Created a world in which there could be no Fall.

But if He could not change what He foresaw, but was compelled to go through with The Plan, then He Himself must be subject, to either a higher Being or to Fate. So not omnipotent and thus not God.

If, on the other hand, the whole thing was His Plan, then He is at best amoral, at worst actively evil. That makes rebellion a noble cause. and Christianity fraudulent.

Not all the sophistry and word salad of theology can overcome or untangle this basic problem.

Yog-Sothoth neblod zinn

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Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson

Written by Tony Atkinson

Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, walker of paths less travelled by. Writer of fanfiction. Player of games. argonaut57@gmail.com

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