If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist

[emjay]

Or just sharing a different perspective. Personally I've never seen arguments like this, ie the general arguments of classical theism, so though I don't think it's any more likely to 'convert' me, it's nonetheless interesting to me in some respect. Your mileage obviously differs, but that's mine.

Oh dear, I seem to have failed yet again at making the forum all about me. What a disappointment. 

At least my cats still love me.

I never thought you were... making it all about you.

In case it's not clear, that first line should not be taken as tacit agreement, if it was, but "Or [he's] just sharing a different perspective[; p]ersonally...".