Why don't pagan gods prevent evil?

>>17787358 (OP)
Not their business
T: pagan

>>17787360
Why worship someone who's okay with all *this*.

they expect humans to fix their problems

>>17787362
It is a mistake to transfer morality to the gods. Furthermore, there is no obligation whatsoever on us towards them; we must honor them and receive something in return. That's basically it.

>>17787375
>It is a mistake to transfer morality to the gods.
Didn't they impart the laws, from a Hellenic standpoint? I may be confusing myself. But as far as I understand the Gods did impart or saction law and even specific ways of governance to the Greeks and Romans. (Numa Pompilius, Lycurgus). In some instance, anyway.

>>17787358 (OP)
They don't live here. That's our job. But they do lend guidance.

>>17787358 (OP)
Because good and evil don't exist. Made up Zoroastrian concept

>>17787381
These are rules of conduct, not a rigid and "dogmatic" moral system. For example, Athena (who I make a hymn to every Sunday) stood by a guy who killed her mother. For some this would be "unfair", but the Greeks knew that morality FOR a human is different for a god. See how rape was punishable, but still, we have cases of desues committing this act.

>>17787392
>Zoroastrian
Not more older than the late iron age, and changed much

>>17787358 (OP)
Evil doesn't really make sense in a pantheon where competing interests arise, it only really works if there is one supreme all powerful creator that gets to solely dictate what evil is.

>>17787412
>>17787368
Christianicuck cope

>>17787416
What? Christcucks believe in an objective good/evil that comes from a real god, though, and I am saying it is subjective and if you don't believe in a single all powerful god, then you also don't believe that opposition to that god is the sole source of all evil.

>expecting demons or man-made idols to "prevent evil."
The question misunderstands their nature. They are part of the evil, not opposed to it. In other words, Pagan gods are not real deities but demons (see Psalm 95:5, and 1 Cor. 10:20). Most myths involving Paganism are morally ambiguous at best or outright depraved at worst, with most of them historically marked by ritual manipulation of the divine for power, so expecting moral intervention is a category error to begin with.

>>17787358 (OP)
Theyre the fallen angels anon.

>>17787358 (OP)
They aren't real just like YHWH, the creator and hater of wizards

>>17787358 (OP)
God asked the same question in Psalm 82.

>>17787723
Is that why he didn't ever ask himself why he didn't bother to prevent evil, he was too busy worrying about cooler gods?

>>17787675
And I bet you can totally prove your god is the one true god by summoning fire onto meat like the jew book said faithful followers should be able to do ala elijah?

>>17787739
Elijah’s fire was a one-time, dramatic intervention in a contest against Baal (ironically, paganism). The miracle occurred in a specific prophetic context ordained by God, not something humans can replicate at will. “You can’t repeat miracle X, therefore God doesn’t exist” is a non sequitur. Even Christ refused to perform signs on demand for Herod (Luke 23:8–9). Refusing spectacle is Christlike, ironically.

>>17787747
So faith can't actually do anything, the story doesn't apply to you or me only to magical jews that god preordains by bloodlines who will be able to actually experience god and everyone else is just created to test their superior jewish constitution?

>>17787754
Yes, that’s why Christ’s Church includes every race, tongue, and nation, and the apostles were sent to the Gentiles. Very Jewish supremacist of God. Isn't it also strange that a Jewish supremacist cult made Rome its capital and made martyrs of Greek philosophers? Hmm, it really activates your almonds...

>>17787762
Christ is not El Shaddai.

>>17787764
That’s what the Sanhedrin said too, then tore their robes when Christ said ‘I AM.’ Indulge me: who then is the Angel of the Lord that receives worship?

>>17787762
Sure gentiles can worship the jews, but they can't repeat the miracles or commune with god directly, only through a jew.

>>17787358 (OP)
Cause it's all made up or they don't care/are busy doing something else

>>17787358 (OP)
They're not all-powerful, nor all-knowing, nor all-good

>>17787358 (OP)
The Abrahamic gods don't prevent evil either.

>>17787358 (OP)
Evil is chaos, or the lack of strict causality. The gods do prevent this by perpetuating order.
I assume you’re not going are an atheist materialist and aren’t satisfied with this response, and that evil to you simply means anything which does not maximize pleasure. So my answer as to why the gods do not prevent things which hinder the maximization of pleasure is that such things are not necessarily evil in a pagan context.

>>17787392
>gets raped to death
>guess I AM BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL