Over the past week or so, Meow Mix has made a few wonderful threads illustrating the Problem of Evil (POE) and the inconsistencies (well, problems) therein. In a nutshell the Problem of Evil is as follows:
"God Almighty is the highest good!"
"Well then why is there a load of bad in the world?"...
It is possible to build a world in which there is no physical suffering, yet in which there is still free will (or the illusion thereof, depending on where you sit with that particular debate -- key takeaway, with the same amount of free agency we employ now, however much that is. I will...
Often Christians will argue that the violence attributed to their god in the Bible was justified by someone's sin or necessary for some greater purpose. When I was a Christian, I accepted this argument as well, but I was unaware of the extent of violence depicted in the Bible. After research for...