Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

[XK9_Knight]

I think many of you have been very helpful in clarifying the issue… except Benny.


What many of you were pointing towards what Esquilax made so explicate, and "the problem of evil" would appear to be just another nail in the coffin, so to speak; “the type of God I’m referring to can’t reconciled with the blatant suffering that exists?” Evil isn’t necessarily an argument against God in general but against Christian theism in particular.

How do you deal with evil or the thought of injustice when it arises?

What do you mean by "evil"?

It could be “natural evil, moral evil, pain and suffering, the philosophical problem of evil, the question as to whether ‘evil is really a thing’, objective evil,” I really wanted to leave it open to you guys as to where this goes; I had a similar problem with Benny some time ago. I’m looking to see how the rest of you interpret the issue.

And I’m not discounting your earlier response, the story you mentioned of reading the bible and seeing it as “a collection of stories” was thoughtful and concise.

No. The lack of evidence for god (any god) was sufficient. Anyone who bothers to study the evolution of human cultures outside of their own will soon see that many primitive cultures developed the same kind of stories to explain how they got there.

There really is very little difference between the Hopi myth and your precious bible nonsense.

Oh Minimalist, you’re so funny.


I knew from the second I read your name that your lack of belief was purely intellectual. Although, for my sister it wasn’t; it was very much an emotional thing, a personal thing.

If you haven’t had an experience like the one I mentioned earlier, that’s fine. My goal was to listen to those that have and understand them better in the process; to understand my sister as well.