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Demonodicies
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[Blunderov] An artful slant on the problem of evil. Might lend additional heft to the argument that the theist has no way of knowing that the bible wasn't actually written by Satan himself.
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Demonodicies
Thanks, Eric Steinhart, for emailing me the following. Hail Satan!
TI: God, the Demon, and the Status of Theodicies.
AU: STEIN,-EDWARD
SO: American-Philosophical-Quarterly. Ap 90; 27(2): 163-167.
JN: American-Philosophical-Quarterly;
IS: 0003-0481
AB: Consider an omnipotent, omniscient, all-evil creator of the universe and an argument against its existence based on the presence of good in the world. “Demonists” can respond to such arguments with “demonodicies,” arguments that the demon’s existence is compatible with the good in the world. Given that there is a demonodicy isomorphic to every theodicy, the theist, in addition to establishing the possibility and consistency of God’s existence with the amount of evil in the world, must further establish the existence of a good supernatural being rather than an evil one. No current version of theism gives such an argument.
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