(October 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm)Lehrling Wrote: "God created good and evil so we would have free choice in rejecting him or not. He wanted to have a personal relationship with us, not make us puppets on a string.
This stuff pisses me off, because it is essentially saying that evil is a justifiable price to pay for free will. I don't know about anyone else, but I would gladly be a mindless robot if it meant that evil did not exist.
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