Evil is not a metaphysical substance. If we leave natural evil to the side ("calamities of nature") and talk about evil acted out by human beings, evil is an act of the will directed against God's law. Since God ordains all things, then it seems to follow that God "created" evil in the sense that he ordained sin.
Your definition of "evil" allows your deity to commit literally
any act and have it defined as "good." If a human being rapes, tortures, and murders a bunch of children, you would call this "evil." If your deity does the
exact same act, you call it "good."
That means I find your system of ethics to be despicable.
Your "delightful little article" is a demonstration of the complete and utter moral bankruptcy of Biblical ethics. Just from the very top:
quote:
Luke 21:20-24
God is speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah that he will bring about because Israel has gone after Baal and the grove. When God brings judgment on Jerusalem and Judah he will have pagan sweaty greasy Babylonian soldiers to rip the women up that are pregnant and have the babies bashed to pieces in the streets of Jerusalem.
God will cause mothers to be ripped up and the babies' brains to be bashed in.
Congratulations, you worship an imaginary
sociopath.
Your system of ethics is the same one that allows mothers with postpartum depression to drown their children, simply because they believe "god told me to."
If you heard a voice in your head claiming to be your god, and that voice instructed you to kill a young child who lives next door, would you obey the voice? According to your system of ethics, if it
is god, you are sinning if you disobey. What would you do?
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