WOTMQ: Suffering?
Like many others who think about these things, I think "The Problem of Evil" should be called "The Problem of Suffering." Philosphers have divided the problem into the logical problem and the evidential problem. It's certainly evident, but in no way logical. Ha!!!
In the video, I talk about Rabbi Harold Kushner's solution, proposed in his massive best-seller, "When Bad Things Happen To Good People." I actually based Mr. Deity turning off his all-knowingness on Kushner's idea. I also talk about PineCreek Doug's ideas about God why God would create anything — Christianity's real problem of Evil.
Thanks again, gang! Enjoy!!! B
Comments (9)
Absolutely!!!
The rise of Homo sapiens was not inevitable through evolution. It was a product of a cosmic roll of the dice.
The cause of suffering now-a-days? Seems to be SCOTUS
Absolutely!!!
This question of "good vs evil" constitutes the definitive proof that there is NO god. What we miopic humans fail to see and accept is that there is nothing "ethical" about life. Life lives off life. Killing and eating is what has perpeturated life from the getgo through eons of evolutionary natural selection —and we are no exception. It is childish to cover our eyes to that harsh reality and delude ourselves into thinking that, after death, there will be a "heaven" (good!) and "hell" (evil!). Grow UP, believers! There is no Santa Claus!
Well, at least no good God.
All goodness? Some examples. Even one? OK, never mind. (Doug is 100% correct)
I have never understood the attempt to logically prove "god". It only results in some sort of deistic god at best
So true. And the Deist god is absolutely pointless/useless!