Evil

[Mudhammam]

This is my belief so make of it what you will.

Whenever people talk about evil they actually assume there’s such a thing as good. When they assume there’s such a thing as good, they assume there’s such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. When they assume a moral law they must assume a moral lawgiver. Why do we assume a moral lawgiver? Because ultimately when you raise the question of evil, it’s either raised by a person, or about a person. That means either the question-raiser or the object of the question is assumed to have intrinsic worth and that can only be so if we are the creation of God.

What's a "moral lawgiver"? How does it differ from the rational faculty's apprehension of more or less ideal conditions in which such a faculty may be utilized? If intrinsic worth requires a Creator, it's not intrinsic... it depends on external circumstance, namely the bestowal of worth by something else. If God requires no "free gift", why should we? If, after all, we are really intrinsically valuable and not on account of another being's legislating it to be so.