Some of the “workarounds” strike me as “okay, so you just don’t want to do it; why not just admit that?”
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
- There are rules, passed on to humanity from God.
- God is perfect.
- Therefore if you find a loophole in the rules you are not outsmarting God or anything like that, God is Perfect and cannot be outsmarted by mere mortals.
- Therefore if you find such a loophole, you are not committing some form of heresy as most Christians would see it. Rather, you are extra virtuous because you found the loopholes that God put there as "easter eggs" for those of His followers that were attentive and clever enough to spot them.
- Repeat this for several millennia and you get the New York fishing line shenanigans.
I'm not sure I agree with some of the axioms, but I must admit that if you accept the first few points then "New York fishing line" follows pretty much linearly from those. I also quite like the idea that mortals cannot "outsmart" a deity by finding loopholes, because the idea a human could outsmart God always seemed like the very height of hubris to me. Then again, I am a (drunk) atheist so my opinions about gods are probably not too reliable. :)
All knowing by necessity means knowing about the loopholes we'd exploit, or he's not all knowing.
“if you don’t have a clear example indicating how something’s bad, it’s probably Good Enough™ “
Basically, if you believe that god is omnipotent and omnipresent, then surely he is aware of those loopholes. Which might indicate that he left them in purposefully, so that people could use them.
While it seems shaky, it follows certain logic there that makes some sense to me as a non-religious person.