(2) Evil is really God’s love
(3) Evil is needed to appreciate the good
(4) Blame the ancestors and blame the victim
(5) Evil is necessary for free will
(7) Evil doesn’t last very long
(8) Evil is necessary for compassion
(9) Suffering builds character
(10) God is testing our faith
(11) The Creator is always justified
(12) Evil necessary to prove God’s existence
Conclusion - God has run out of excuses. He is either incompetent, indifferent, or cruel. Another way to reconcile the facts is to conclude that gods don’t exist at all.
If you had the knowledge and power of a god, would you have created birth defects, disease, and natural disasters? If not, then you are nicer than the god you believe in. This god should be praying to you for moral advice, rather than the other way around.
Would you take a syringe full of malaria and inject it into someone you love? And yet that’s exactly what God does to people he claims to love, using a mosquito as the syringe.
clipped from: friendlyatheist.com