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7/8/2025, 11:09:58 PM
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>>509863095
>brutal
it's not, for a few reasons,
1: epicurus never said this and never would have. it's completely against his teachings since he believed in and taught about gods that didn't give a shit about human affairs. putting his gay little marble bust in the picture to lend it more credibility is funny.
the reason this trilemma gets attributed to epicurus is because of a Christian writer named lactantius strawmanned epicurus before dismantling the argument in the next few sentences. then, ~1500 years later, hume finds this paragraph and thinks it's amazing, so he plagiarizes it, keeping the false attribution but not bothering to point out lactantius' dismantling of it.
2: as pointed out above, in the sentences immediately following the creation of this false trilemma, it was destroyed.
3: there are eleventy billion valid and sound theodicies and defenses for the problem of evil, so it's not like Christians don't have an answer for it, we actually have too many.
>>509863095
>brutal
it's not, for a few reasons,
1: epicurus never said this and never would have. it's completely against his teachings since he believed in and taught about gods that didn't give a shit about human affairs. putting his gay little marble bust in the picture to lend it more credibility is funny.
the reason this trilemma gets attributed to epicurus is because of a Christian writer named lactantius strawmanned epicurus before dismantling the argument in the next few sentences. then, ~1500 years later, hume finds this paragraph and thinks it's amazing, so he plagiarizes it, keeping the false attribution but not bothering to point out lactantius' dismantling of it.
2: as pointed out above, in the sentences immediately following the creation of this false trilemma, it was destroyed.
3: there are eleventy billion valid and sound theodicies and defenses for the problem of evil, so it's not like Christians don't have an answer for it, we actually have too many.
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