Think about this excellent example of fine rhetoric:
"Is God willing to prevent Evil, but unable?"
- "Then he is not omnipotent"
"Is God able, but unwilling?"
- "then he is malevolent."
"Is God both willing and able?"
- "then whence cometh Evil?"
"Is he neither willing nor able?"
- "Then why call him GOD?"
- Epicurus (circa 375 BCE)
I wish we still had the classical style of education, where rhetoric is a compulsory part of the curriculum. Whatever our opinions, we would have learned to construct our arguments infinitely better than we do now.
Friday, August 22, 2008
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