Why did god create evil?

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You need to read your Joseph Campbell.

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Oh, my dear friend, I read Campbell twenty years ago. A treasury of information he is but I wanted to know what my ancestors believed and not what Campbell thought they believed by analyzing funny theological concepts.

Want to discuss Campbell?
Page 47 of the “Oriental Mythology”:

We may take as example the case of the mythologies of Egypt, which for the period c. 2800-1800 BC are the best documented in the world.

How much did he know of those documented mythologies that he so much esteems?
Zero! He knew nothing because the Egyptologists’ translation of the texts containing the said mythologies are not only completely useless but dangerous for the student because they are deceptive.

He is good in philosophical assumptions but so naive!!
He writes of the Bull symbol:

Between the period of the earliest female figurines of c. 4500 BC (he means the figurines of the East) and that of the seals of Figures 2 and 3 (rams and bulls are depicted on the seals) , a span of a thousand years elapsed, during which the archaeological signs constantly increase of a cult of the tilled earth fertilized by the noblest and most powerful beast of the recently developed holy barnyard, the bull –who not only sired the milk-yielding cows, but also drew the plow, which in that early period simultaneously broke and seeded the earth. Moreover, by analogy, the horned moon, lord of the rhythm of the womb and of the rains and dews, was equated with the bull; so that the animal became a cosmological symbol, uniting the fields and laws of sky and earth.
And the whole mystery of being could thus be poetically illustrated through the metaphor of the cow, the bull, and their calf, liturgically rendered within the precincts of the early temple compounds –which were symbolic of the womb of the cosmic goddess Cow herself.

I could say that here we have just reached the point where naiveté ends and stupidity begins, but it is even worse: For Campbell, Jung, and unfortunately for Kerényi too, there are only scholars, poets and philosophers on this world. What about common people? Were they informed what it was that one which poetically was illustrated through the metaphor of the cow? Because they had been taught by their ancestors that the Cow, the Mother-womb who bore them after having been raped by the Bull-god, was their mother and not some imaginative metaphor.

The Coffin Texts, Spell 317 §135

I have come into being, one whom no vulva made, whom no womb bore.

Copy SIC of the same Spell

I have come into being, one whom no bull fashioned, whom no womb made.

Do you want a piece of worthy knowledge? Forget Campbell and Jung and read the texts.