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How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?

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How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
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RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 22, 2013 at 11:53 am
(October 22, 2013 at 11:20 am)John V Wrote: The suffering of the baby affects a lot of other people as well. It could be necessary for them.

By what measure? Any benefit you try to ascribe to suffering is negated by the fact that god is omnipotent and could bring about those benefits any way possible. Suffering is superfluous to an omnipotent god unless suffering is goal.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?

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RE: How can ... kind of thing to happen? - by DLJ - October 22, 2013 at 8:46 am
RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen? - by Faith No More - October 22, 2013 at 11:53 am

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