There's no indication that God would be good. In the Bible, David did something bad so God had 10 of his wives raped as punishment. He ordered genocide, specifically including that suckling children were to be killed. He does a lot of bad shit. Maybe he's real and he's a Trump supporter.

God doesn't care, or God doesn't know.

If he knows, but does not care, then he is not good.

If he cares, but does not know, then he is not god.

If this is part of the plan, then God is evil.

God could still exist. It just means that either he isn't benevolent, isn't all-powerful, isn't all-knowing, or some combination thereof.

Or God do exists and is the ultimate villain, the fucking last boss of Life™

The world is not fair.

Have you considered the possibility that God is an incompetent moron?

Religion of any ilk is a mental illness.

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Existence of evil isn't proof that [the Christian] God doesn't exist, for a variety of reasons, some less obvious than others. Although it's still very unlikely that he does exist.

Which is generally irrelevant, because faith is entirely separate from objective facts. You don't need to consider the hypothetical existence of God to be a true fact in order to be a good Christian. To 'believe' in him means something else completely, but depending on your language it might not make linguistic sense (assuming it makes sense at all, but that's a separate discussion).

The same is, however, not true for Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity (stupid ass name), Mormonism, or some others. Mostly because they have nothing to do with Christianity, and are just... well, scams.

Catholicism, and most other Christian denominations, use Christianity in a similar fashion to the Nazis using swastikas.

The main idea of Christianity is that earthly life is essentially an entrance exam for the next, true life. You live your life as best you can, then you're judged afterwards, and if you pass - you go to heaven, which is supposedly a paradise free of evil.

So evil (or what we generally consider to be 'evil') being omnipresent does not prove anything in the context of Christianity. The crucial part is whether or not evil exists in the 'next life'. Conveniently, we'll never know until we reach it, so it'll probably never be possible to prove anything on this topic.

I'm not sure if it's still possible to track where it all started, but to me it seems quite likely that precisely this idea of 'true life' or 'soul' being disconnected from physical, observable, empirical reality is where all our troubles with capitalism started.

If this life is largely meaningless, and the real one starts after we die, then sooner or later some people will just do whatever they want. And if humans are the only 'intelligent' beings, or the only beings with souls (Christianity + later Enlightenment philosophy), then mass destruction of nature is morally sound.

Then add focusing on accumulation of capital, as well as industrial machinery, and you arrive where we are today, pretty much.

God is obviously malevolent. All of his conservative representatives being evil should be a clue.

God's interests are confined to the ocular, he doesn't do lungs.

if you look at how cancer develops

that doesn't need God.. that just happens here on earth as a random lottery / your life choices

Mysterious ways, brah. Mysterious ways.

Maybe heaven exists and god takes the good there early as a reward.

Do you mean the designer, omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent, creator, Jehovah, or the lord god that gave that gave us viruses, deadly bacteria, genetic diseases, parasites, , volcanos, earthquakes, blindness, cancers, floods, droughts, starvation, meteorites, death from lightning strikes, pestilence, holy wars, tidal waves, asbestos, infant mortality, trachoma, life threatening radioactive elements, solar flares, malaria, smallpox, despots, dictators, slavery, mass extinctions, ice ages, trachoma, hare lips, cleft palates, animal sacrifices, infant genital mutilation, mental illness depression, bilharzia and anxiety, autism, Parkinson's disease, Hansons disease, hernias, the appendix, compacted wisdom teeth, acne, dementia and complete morons?

Maybe there is just asbestos in the Vatican

This is simply the laws of nature with no supernatural design behind them. Read or listen to Christopher Hitchens. He can articulate this position much better than I can. But religion will tie itself in knots trying to explain our lives within its overview. And when we rightly question how things can be we are told we must have faith. No evidence is given because there is none to give. It's a clever trick.

I'm an antitheist, but just to play along:

God is real, and he's a fucking asshole.

He makes quite a few of the right decisions. His stance on ai, giving press dumpl a hard time.

But still... not passing the bridge on some issues like same sex marriage afaik. Or putting pedo priests to justice .

(Someone correct me on this if it's outdated)

No shit !

The evils have the capabilities to give cancer to someone and they don't like the wokeish pope

Fuck the the Catholic Church and anyone that supports it.

This always boils down to the Epicurean Paradox.

So, most religious mythology (including Christianity) defines its god as 3 absolutes:

• All good (not a shred of evil)

• All powerfull (its will is our reality, period)

• All knowing (it's fully conscious of literally everything that happens in its universe)

So how is it that evil can exist? Cuz we can see that clear as day, everywhere. God either...

• is aware of it, has the ability to stop it, and chooses not to, in which case it is not all good.

• is aware of it, wants to stop it, but doesn't have the ability to, in which case it isn't all powerful.

• Has the power and desire to stop it, but isn't aware it's happening, in which case it isn't all knowing.

Every single attempt to answer the Epicurean paradox does so by rugpulling one of the three pillars and presenting god as instead only being two of those absolutes. (and if anyone reading this takes that as a challenge, feel free to give it a go).

How can this be explained, other than God doesn’t exist?

Either Christianity and most other religions are being deliberately dishonest about the nature of their gods, or, as you said, god doesn't exist.

Vance did reap the last popes soul, he could only do it partially on this one.

This is the bad timeline, evil is rewarded