BeCaUsE hE's MyStErIoUs!

"He gave us free will" aka he doesn't want to.

A: He can't.

Dude forgot to add himself as admin.

According to Isiah 45:7 it’s C.

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things”

The god the Abrahamists have chosen to worship is a weather and war god. So he is a vengeful dick.

When the Israelites were still polytheistic they worshipped, besides this war god, a sun god and a god of fertility in the Pantheon. Yet they’ve chosen to solely worship the war god. Says a lot about them.

Please let me remake this:

A. He can't, so he is not worthy being worshiped.

B. He doesn't want, so he is not worthy being worshiped.

C. He causes them, so... uhm, actually maybe? Depends, is He doing terrible things to me and my friends, or my enemies?

D. He doesn't exist, so he is not worthy being worshiped.

Growing up as an agnostic atheist, I loved the Epicurean argument. Now as an adult, I feel compelled to ask the definitions of the words Good, Evil, and God before talking about things.

I think most of the arguments surrounding these topics involves complex use of metaphors and abstract concepts that people can spend lifetimes defining, but are happy to argue about in a short form without a mutually agreed definition.

I don’t know. At this point I’m leaning toward C.

E. Invented by humans

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

He caused it/allowed it to happen because he wants to test YOUR faith and make sure you're cool with needless pain and suffering so long as it means you get to go to heaven/avoid an eternity of torture.

I make my room filthy and dangerous every day. My roommates are getting hurt!

Why doesn't my mom clean it up for me? She certainly could. Does she want me to live in squalor? Perhaps she MAKES the mess!

IDK, maybe mom doesn't exist.

there is a fucked up fifth answer that works for theists, E. terrible things don't exist

we are just bald monkeys, stop pretending otherwise

go fuck a banana!

In Buddhism, the concept of God as a powerful creator is not central. The question of "why terrible things happen" is addressed through the teachings of karma and interdependence. Terrible things occur due to the collective actions aka karma of beings, influenced by ignorance, attachment, and aversion, rather than a deliberate act of a deity. Thus, from a Buddhist perspective, the most aligned answer would be that terrible things happen because of the causes and conditions created by sentient beings themselves, rather than any of the options listed.

It's all a test. If you can't put up with horrible shit while being alive, how you gonna become an angelic slave and sing happy songs for eternity?

Think about the following:

In the medieval ages, people were popping out 5-15 children on average. Child mortality was extremely high, with roughly 80% of children dying before they were 5 y/o.

Now, what should god do (if they existed)? Let the children life and cause overpopulation, which leads to famine and disaster, or kill a lot of children? There's literally no solution.

That was until contraceptives were found. And interestingly, contraceptives exist at roughly the same time that antibiotics exist, thus preventing both high child-mortality and overpopulation.

Their logic would be

C

If something bad happens to someone it’s because they deserved it

“But they were a good person”

They were going to do something terrible

It's just that the model of divinity as an lawful authority is complete bullshit, and has nothing to do with spirituality