(July 5, 2015 at 8:42 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: As an atheist, you are NOT at peace with this because you want ALL rape, ALL cancer and (presumably) ALL prayer answered. When you don't get your way, you deny that God exists because an all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful God would be able to prevent pain and suffering.
No that's not how it works. Atheists don't deny that God exists due to his perceived inaction. We simply realize that God is a figment of the imagination. It's nothing more than that.
Quote:However, I have yet to see anyone propose how a world in which all suffering is eliminated without also eliminating our free will would actually function.
Well what about heaven? It could work like that. See that was easy to figure out.