Why? I don’t know.
This is one of the best essays I’ve read on suffering.
I am keeping a list of questions to get answered hereafter. I am not looking for answers now because there are none that can satisfy me or any other reasonable person. I can offer some partial answers: Free will accounts for a lot. Where there is love there must be freedom, and where there is freedom it will be misused. If we were puppets dangling from God’s fingers, there would be no evil because there would be no freedom. Those who believe we are all part of a plan God is working out in infinite detail have a much greater problem than I do. Their God has much more to answer for.
Those in the new wave of deniers have much in common with the fundamentalist. Both imagine a God who is constructed to their specifications and to meet their own needs.
We are free to misuse our lives and suffer as much as we wish. We are also free to let go and live. I hope I learn to truly do that before I die.
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