Friend says he's happier not going to Mass

[Sophia]

And yet, here’s where you’re inconsistent: none of these allow for God to intervene, and yet, you insist that since He doesn’t intervene, He’s at best indifferent and at worst, a monster. Inconsistency.

Not true. (To use Newspeak: “Doubleplusungood”.) If a person is in dire need of help, and asks for that help, God is most welcome to “intervene”. But there is no sign that he does. And according to the duck principle, if there is no sign that God helpfully intervenes, then the only rational conclusion that God does NOT interfere.

That’s what I keep telling you. So far, it hasn’t sunk in.

You were talking about unqualified “consistency”, which is a bad thing. At least quote yourself correctly. Consistency is SOMETIMES good, other times bad.

And, of course you still sidestep the basic principles. Short memory?

• The responsibility of an agent is directly commensurate to his power.
• To respect the “free will” of sociopaths and psychopaths lowers one to their level of morality.
• Only an idiot would allow an act to happen that he explicitly does NOT want to happen.
• If an agent allows an act (which he could prevent), then the only conclusion is that he did not disapprove of that act. He might approve of it, or be neutral toward it.