1. Outer shell: God makes everything happen.
2. Except in the case of Free Will given to man.
3. Except free will was given to man by god.
4. Except god can't create a problem he can't solve
4.1. and the free will problem can't be solved.
5. Except the free will problem can be solved by god, because he is all-powerful.
6. Except the notion of being all-powerful can be shown to be self-contradictory. — god must be atheist
We have a series of concentric circles, [expressing a universe of 'committable actions'] from outermost in, reflecting the principles at issue — JosephS
1. Prohibition: Practicing torture by United States Citizens is illegal, and is considered to be immoral and below the dignity of a person who is a free and dignified citizen of the US of A.
2. Permission: the US must show to those bastardly Arabs who it is really that calls the shots; so a select bunch of sadistical US citizens have been recruited to perpetually torture a number of Arab detainees in some island location outside the United States' own lands.
3. Prohibition: a US president made a promise to end this unconscionable sadistical practice by dignified US citizens.
4. Permission: the US president did not follow through with this promise, for some to me unknown reason. — god must be atheist
Divorce.
Christian divorce, in the sense of the Roman Catholic Church.
1. Marriage is a sanctity, and it ought to last until the death of at least one of the two partners.
2. Except when the pope approves annulment.
3. and Except when there is no consummation of marriage.
4. Except annulment can't be obtained for many otherwise reasonable causes (such as incompatibility).
5. Except when annulment can't be obtained despite a great wish for it, the couple can divorce in civil court and potentially live in sin with a different partner (or with bunch of different partners, in sequence or concurrently with many)
6. Except living in sin is an unforgivable sin,with grave consequences in the afterlife.
7. Except when one does not mind selling his soul to the devil. for him to take the seller's soul captive for all eternity.
8. Except in the case when the Lord, the Devil, Hell, etc. don't exist at all. — god must be atheist
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