Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.
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I don't understand this attitude that living things are somehow entitled to be free of suffering. That an injustince was done in that we were created incomplete. I have never felt incomplete.
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It's sad that you don't understand the attitude, but it's irrelevant. We aren't talking about entitlement.
God had two choices - a world of great suffering or a world of less suffering. As God is omnipotent, the level of suffering is independent of other considerations (for an omnipotent being, one variable is not dependent on another variable unless he wants it to be). Therefore, by choosing the world of great suffering (a world where suffering tends to increase unless systematic effort is applied against it), God established that greater suffering is inherently desirable to lesser suffering. Therefore God is evil.
This is the "short version" of the argument, of course.
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