“One might justifiably doubt that the social impact of an idea for good or ill is an adequate measure of its truth, especially when there are reasons being offered to think that the idea in question really is true.” – William Lane Craig, “The New Atheism and Five Arguments for God, Reasonable faith.org “.

The social impact of an idea for good or ill is an adequate measure of its truth if this idea is claimed to be of divine origin, because as major theistic religions claim, god never makes any mistakes or does anything wrong. Also god is claimed to be perfect and to be pure good. Whatever evil things god allows to happen or god does directly is supposed to be considered not bad or evil from a certain point of view, because god has reasons to justify how this evil thing will lead to whatever good that god intended to happen. It is often claimed or believed that this way is presumably the only way possible, that god has to resort to in order to bring whatever good that god intends to bring to the world he created to existence. And if this is the case then the result of that seemingly evil must be good. If no good resulted after all this seemingly evil or wrong actions done by god or by religious people in the name of god, then it is true that these things that are believed to be not wrong, bad, or evil by religion are all wrong, bad, or evil things, and these things and also the methods practiced by God in order to reach them only result in negative outcomes, impacts, results, and effects. An idea that is made to lead to the good of humanity without harming or having any negative effect on humanity, is true as long as it leads to the good of humanity only, without resulting in any harm or having any negative effect, outcome, impact, or result on humanity, but if this same idea that is made to lead to the good of humanity also leads to the opposite of the good of humanity by any degree, shape, or form, then this idea or thing is harmful and bad, and cannot be infallible or of divine origin. One might argue that religion states that it is impossible to fulfill some good deeds without doing some bad or harmful things in the process, which was used in many situations in the Quran, including justifying the never-ending war declared by Islam against any non-Islamic territory that is not already occupied by Islam that exists on earth until the Islamic empire successfully occupies and rules all the world, and converts all people to Islam, because only through war would the good of Islam will prevail. This argument is invalid because life (this current or first life in this universe, which is the life before the afterlife in major theistic religions), is the most valuable thing that ever existed, including the life and the quality of life of any human being, but according to religion, life and the quality of life both are of zero value (to both god and to the humans who follow and believe in any of the major theistic religions), and life and the quality of life are both worthless, and the first life that is before the afterlife is only a means to a better after life, and thus it is worthless to god, it doesn’t matter to god, and it is of no significance to god. Which makes the occurrence of all the evil that happens to any human being unacceptable. What matters to God is what’s good for humanity in the afterlife, and so whatever that happens in the first life doesn’t matter, because the entirety of the first life is but a means to reach whatever God has prepared for humanity in the afterlife. What is described as good for humans in religion is bad for humans. But it is considered to be good because it leads to what these major theistic religions are made for, which is not the well-being of humans and is not what is good for humans in the first life that is before the afterlife, but is the well-being and what’s good for humans in the afterlife only, regardless of what negative effects would result because of that during the first life. In case there’s no afterlife, almost the entirety of what religion claims to be good for humanity is pure evil, suffering, and harm. It is impossible to imagine that a god that can create all this and also simultaneously does not value any of this, to be possible to exist. This universe and all that this universe contains is infinitely more valuable than any heavens or afterlife described in any religion could ever be. The social impact of an idea if happened to be that bad, and this idea happened to be from an all-knowing god, then either this idea is not from god or this god is not all-knowing.