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    A theologian, struggling to come to terms with the problem of evil, dies


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    Sorry not to be insensitive to another human being passing away: So his tombstone will read "God is Dead, and now so am I."

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    Here is my opinion, today - tomorrow it may be different.

    The simplest explanation for why God would permit unjust suffering to exist, is that he/she/it wouldn't.

    (Is "God" a name, like "Joe", a title, like "King", a classification, like "tiger", or something else?)

    I think all of the religious arguments which try to explain the co-existence of a god who cares for life, but also permits life to be awful and totally inequitable, quickly become convoluted.

    The complexity of the arguments, causes me to doubt them.

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    Along the same line, here is my current opinion of what the Bible is.

    It is an old book.

    (I think that, humanity as a whole, cannot live with uncertainty concerning existential questions. So, like kids, it pretends. And after awhile, what begins as pretending, becomes ironclad dogma, worth killing to defend.)

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