(November 24, 2015 at 7:17 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't think tsunamis are evil. I don't think death, in and of itself is evil. I believe evil acts committed by conscious people, are evil. And that is entirely our own free will.
Let's try out cancer, then. It's not a nice, clean death. You waste away, in pain, sores suppurating on your skin, literally shitting yourself at the end of it and actually wishing to be dead.
Who chooses cancer?
Who invented cancer? Was he conscious?
The real problem of evil is not asking how evil can exist if your god is good. The real problem of evil is how anyone who invented leukemia or Alzheimer's can be regarded as "good".
You believe that evil acts committed by conscious people are evil.
If your god inflicted my son's mother with breast cancer -- something she certainly didn't choose from her own free will -- how can you say that that act is good?
To forestall an ugly conversation, please don't appeal to "he was using the disease to teach her something". Firstly, she learnt very little from it; and secondly, shouldn't an omnipotent god be better able to find a way to teach someone something than to, you know, give them a fucking fatal disease?
Your god invented cancer. The Problem of Evil is not that it exists in the world -- that's very explainable -- the Problem of Evil is that it exists in the god you Christians claim is the Perfectly Good Creator.
A Perfect Carpenter doesn't build a crooked cabinet.
