(March 9, 2016 at 11:46 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Even with objective morality, it is possible to have conditions in which you can't have one good without allowing a greater evil. That is the position CL thinks God is in, if I'm understanding her right. I'm pretty sure the Catholic version of God's omnipotence doesn't include overcoming paradoxes. God can't make a square a circle without making it 'not a square'. I'm sure CL accepts the leg of theodicy that says God is omnibenevolent, probably the 'maximally benevolent' version. It therefore follows that God cannot, due to his nature, do anything in a given situation that is not the maximally benevolent thing. That means in every situation where it might appear that God is not doing so, it is because we do not have all the information; which God, in his omniscience, does.
This. CL isn't necessarily operating under the same set of assumptions that some of you are. Her position may or may not be logically consistent, depending on what those assumptions are, and her assumptions may or may not be correct - the same as anyone else.