Quote Originally Posted by guitarboy View Post
Carôu made it so it will win.
God can not exist. If a god existed, the world would be changing. It may have existed at one point, but is gone now. Why would it stand by and do nothing? Why would it not help it's creations? Disease, war, old age- things a god would only make if it was a sadistic asshole. Evolution is an obvious answer- and it isn't perfect- evolution can only perfect itself when everything offending humans is extinguished-and it would throw off natures equilibrium.


The basic point you're making here is a real problem, how can a moral God allow the atrocities we see in the world?

Well, think about it. Imagine if we all lived a perfect life where nothing bad ever happened? We'd be like children. Like babies. The way we grow, the way we spiritually develop as human beings, is through our experience and reflection upon suffering in the world.

It's like the story of Buddha. Prince Siddhartha lived his whole life never exposed to any of the problems or suffering in the world, and he never developed, he never understood the universe. When he left and saw it all, it was a step on the way to enlightenment.

We can only grow as people, if there is evil for us to face.





ANOTHER point is that God allows us free will. God has created us not as his little robots, but as individual creatures, with minds and consciousness. A part of this is having free will. And God cannot stop the killer before he kills, because that would stop us from having free will.


Evil is not God's fault, it's our, and God is watching to see if we can fix this problem ourselves.