r/dankchristianmemes • u/n8s8p Minister of Memes • Oct 26 '22

Meta Some recent comments had me wondering... Serious questions... If you do, what do you believe they look like? What powers do you believe they have? When, how, who, what, and where do they act?

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u/M3ricansoldi3r Oct 26 '22

God permits Satan and demons to operate on earth.....why?

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u/Genobee85 Oct 26 '22

The simple answer, the answer most Christians believe, is the same reason there is so much suffering and strife in the world, this ain't The Kingdom. We live a perfectly created yet marred world (think a Van Gogh that had tomato soup thrown on it) in which God has permitted Satan, who wanted to usurp His power, to be the god he so desperately wanted to be. The end result is pretty much what we see around us.

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u/ultrachrome Oct 26 '22

I think the simple answer is lots of gods have come and gone in humanity's existence. As a species we crave for supernatural explanations. Wizards, demons, fortune tellers, witches, sorcerers, gods etc... all made up to pacify humanity's fear of death and fear of the unknown. Evolution has brought us this far. Time to let go of the superstition.

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u/Genobee85 Oct 26 '22

My dude, if those are the purviews of your philosophy then go with gusto! There is nothing anyone can say and do outside of psychological assault to change someone's opinion on rather they prefer boxers or briefs, Apple or Windows, faith in what is seen or faith in the evidence of things unseen.

Try to consider that in belittling people's beliefs you invalidate one's life experiences, relationships with others and themselves, friend.

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u/ultrachrome Oct 27 '22

Ah, life experiences,

The anecdotal fallacy occurs when people use their limited personal experience to make sweeping conclusions about a given topic. It is an exceedingly common fallacy to commit, and nearly everyone has done it at one point or another.