RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 22, 2013 at 7:48 pm
(October 22, 2013 at 1:02 pm)John V Wrote: You can't learn to comfort if no one needs comforting.
So, suffering exists to teach people how to comfort? Yet no one would need to be comforted if suffering didn't exist. You're going in circles.
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