The Problem of Evil

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Back to the specific ideas, I find the entire wording of the "problem" to be extraordinarily weak. To even state that the existence of evil is incompatible with God reveals an severe misunderstanding of religion in general. And honestly, there is no reason that evil and God have to be married at all.

I believe I said that some would view the existence of evil logically incompatible with God. Personally, I do not, but I was trying to look at the issue from a generalist point of view.

Now, you addressed the evils created by man in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, but how do you feel about gratuitous suffering - the kind that is not inflicted by humans, but we suffer at the hands of?