Is God Good?
Channel: Mark Hidden
Date: 2014-07-09

The problem of evil a response to a State of Daniel

Script of Video:
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Thanks Daniel  for the inspiration for this video we will always be brothers in compassion for our fellow man, but In god I can not trust and the problem of evil is a good example of why.

 

Yes this is the argument that atheist love because it is the argument, that theist will often acknowledge. As you do.

Sorry I thought listening to it 3 times might help, but If everything is good, then there can be no evil?  Yet, we have already established that God lets bad things happen to Good people there for everything can not be good if bad things happen, unless those bad things are really good things.  So in this case is it all a matter of perspective?

So polio the black plague, cancer, are all  the results of wrong choices? Seems to me, like god has some fundamental design flaws, or perhaps the universe was not designed for humans in the first place.

Now of course the easiest way to get rid of the problem is to take God out of the equation, but that's no fun. Because, if we assume a God, then the question becomes one of God's character. So we get to ask what kind of twisted master plan would a God have to have to allow this level of suffering in the world?  Now if God is powerless that would explain it, ie He created the universe, but once in motion God has no control, this is the impotent God, or the type of God Einstein imagined.  But this is not the God you are imagining, you believe in a personal God, a God that looks over your shoulder.  A all powerful God and all knowing God and all loving God.  However, This type of God is incompatible with the evidence. What kind of All loving God would let 10.5 million children starve to death each and every year? 

Please enlighten me, as to the utility of their suffering.  If it were in my power to prevent this travesty I would, and anyone human with god's supposed power, would prevent this.  I know you would if it were in your power.

So we are left with 3 types of solutions to this question, Evil impotent, or non existence.  Now we can resort to the nuclear option, the Ponzi scheme to end all Ponzi schemes  were dead men tell no tails, Heaven, and simply say God gives all these children Season Pass's to the Harp Festival in Heaven, for put-ting up with their suffering. 
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But even  if that, if God is looking over everyone shoulders what kind of sadistic pleasure does god Get from watching 10.5 million children die of starvation each and every year?  And more in the past.

 Yes sometimes people do overcome adversity, but 10.5 million starving children don't each year. For every 1 example you have daile, I feel comfortable in predicting I can find 10.5 million examples where people don't.  

 If were keeping score, your losing 10.5 million to 1, or some ratio thereof.

Evil Important Or Non existent.  If there's a God, it is not a God I would want to follow let alone worship, any heaven he would created would most certainly be hell, given his total disregard for the needless suffering of children, and if God is implant, it makes little sense to speak of him, he might as well be non existante.

 Atheist are being nice when they point out God does not exist, the truth is if God does exists his action or lack of it in this case clearly indicates he is evil, or at the very best has an unquenchable appetite for the suffering of children.

 Sure you can turn your back on God's actions and simply say God works in mysterious ways, but evil flourishes when good people do nothing, especially when that evil is God. 


As a matter of reciprocity we all should be held accountable for are action or inaction, it is the foundation of a good society, the fact that god get's a pass on everything simply because he is god, seems to me like a classic case of enabling.  Why should we hold god to a lower standard than we would any human on earth. "