By Jason Charles on 10/10/2018 (6 years 73 days ago)
Atheists love to condemn God, saying God is responsible for the suffering of the world, reasoning if He truly was God he would stop all the injustice and suffering, and since He doesn’t, there must not be a God. This is not a new thought, Epicurus the Greek philosopher condemned God in the same way as early as 351 BCE,“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”― Epicurus Whence Commeth Evil?Now, instead of focusing on God in this stanza, and what He is or isn’t supposedly capable of doing, instead ask, “Is it evil to force your will on someone?” If the answer is yes, then in that sense this very question...