The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.

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I find the whole business of arguing that God doesn't exist and then blaming him for the needle and the damage done a bit hard to understand

I don't believe  fictional characters in literature are real but I've had plenty of interesting debates about their motives.  
If another person declared  Voldemort was real, I would inform him that the wizard was fictional but I would also try to use their own beliefs to disprove the existence of Tom Riddle.  

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Yawn. This argument is so old that it has grown a beard touching the floor.

God, according to your believe (I was Catholic too, you know) is omnipotent and omniscent. So, following that line of thought, he knows what you will do at every moment in your life before you are even born. The caring parent argument doesn't fly.

I'm not following you.

Yes, God is omnipotent and omniscient. And because He cares for us, he directs us and asks us to do things that are for our good.

How does that not follow? I do the same with my kids.


I direct them to take a bath and brush their teeth. I tell them to do their homework. I ask them to help clean the house EVEN THOUGH I COULD DO IT FASTER MYSELF because they are being trained.

Make sense?

Except the punishment for your children failing to do those things is not an eternity of torture.