So, I frequent a Wiccan/pagan/general magic chat group and I've noticed a trend of "us vs. them" and magical elitism. When asked to even define magic people are met with rambling sermons on the beautiful danger that is magic, how sacred it is and how it's only attainable for a select few...
An omnimax god has nothing to gain by creating. It knows it can do anything and it knows the results. Therefore, for such a being to create is ultimately petty.
I don't see them as the same either. It depends on whether the statement is made with a light heart or a hardened one. You can generally tell if a joke is merely a jab with a smirk veiling it.
Of course it was. You claimed whether dolphins can be considered evil depends on moral agency. However, moral agency is a flimsy term that ultimately doesn't help the matter.
Knowing right and wrong is typically used to assign culpability, but there is nothing intrinsic to moral agency that...
Moral agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...but this doesn't explain what right and wrong are, or why blame should be ascribed, or even what "evil" is.