'Why does God allow suffering?'

'Why does God allow suffering?' Dec 29, 2019 5:17:52 GMT FilmFlaneur likes this

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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 29, 2019 5:17:52 GMT

Dec 28, 2019 17:26:01 GMT OldSamVimes said:

Dec 28, 2019 11:30:28 GMT @graham said:

Your position lacks consistency.

How so?

It seems obvious that if someone is going to ask 'Why does God allow suffering' you have to take into consideration the implications of what God existing would mean.

And what are those implications? Implications require some kind of known facts by which to reason from. If you don't know anything about something then, even if you imagine it exists, its existence doesn't "imply" anything because you can literally make up anything you want about it.

In any case, the rational question to ask isn't "if god (any given god) exists, how can we rationalize the way reality is," the rational question is "given how reality is, is that good evidence that god (any given god) exists."