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>>16288164
>Could have God created a universe with free-will but without Evil?
>No
>Then God is not all powerful

I'm not sure this argument works. It depends on how you define potentiality and omnipotence.
For a starter, I would claim that a potentiality requires the possibility of being actualized for it to be a potentiality. If something cannot be actualized, then no potentiality can refer to it. So, if there is no way to actualize a 6-sided triangle in an euclidean plane, then there is no potentiality for which we can actualize said impossible figure.

As such, not being able to actualize that figure does not imply impotence. An omnipotent being is a being who can actualize everything that can be actualized. If you can argue that an evil-free universe with free will cannot be actualized (and this is a whole different argument), then you can still claim that God is omnipotent.

>>16146394
I'll tell you why.

Nietzsche reads a philosophy book. Nietzsche now thinks Nietzsche has some profound intellectual insight.

Nietzsche publish his notes. Nietzsche spews a bunch of dogshit thinking they have it all figured out.

Based anonymous academic is scrolling through the new books in the library and reads two sentences of their poorly formulated thoughts. Based anonymous academic also sees how their thoughts are not based in reality, but in psychological needs they have. Based anonymous chad points to a single Plato passage which devastates their ill philosophy.

Nietzsche is massively upset at this offense. Striking at their poorly formed idea doesn't just strike at the idea.. it reveals the illnesses in their own thought. Nietzsche mad. Nietzsche now realizes Plato is the big bad enemy who must be erased from history.

Nietzsche doesn't read philosophy (he only reads ports and french moralists), so Nietzsche doesn't actually delve into understanding Plato. Instead Nietzsche fails for any argument they can find to destroy Plato.

"B-but he hated life, he was decadent!" Nietzsche writes out, regaining confidence. "Therefore, we can ignore this hack! My world view isn't sick and disgusting, it's still good!"

Nietzsche publish another book, Twilight of the Idols, assured that Based anonymous academic will repent for his sins against Nietzsche's shitty philosophy. Goes mad before anyone has the chance to respond.

>>15896623
Both Plato's and Aristotle's theologies are derived from their general philosophies, and they are all polytheistic. Check Timaeus and Book XII of Metaphysics.
>>15898817
It depends on what you mean by religious. By contemporary standards, Spinoza and Kant were religious insofar they believed in God and derived a set of conduct from said belief, which they followed strictly. They were not religious in the sense that they were following the tenets of an organized religion.

>>15851868
I don't, nor I see them as mentally ill weirdos. I genuinely believe gender is entirely socially constructed, which means that a MtF trans is as deluded as me (a guy who was born male and who has always identified as a man).