Sy Borg wrote: ↑July 10th, 2022, 7:27 am
I look at the problem of evil in terms of humans in reality, and what I see are organisms huddling in the few safe places on a rocky planet within a broader environment that is even more dangerous, ie. space.
We are tiny beings in a humongous, lethally dangerous universe. It's not hard to understand why so many throughout history clung to comforting myths that personalise - and thus render potentially controllable - the vast impersonal and potentially dangerous edifices of our Earth and of space.
OK, so 'evil' is something we invented to deal with the scariness of reality. A sort of bogeyman personification of hazard? I think I can go with that. But the ramifications, the structures that humans erect upon this scaffold? Atheists, who really should know better, ask "if there is a God, why is there 𝔼𝕍𝕀𝕃?"
For me, that's when it has gone too far. There is no evil, only hazardous parts of the universe or life, that are only to be expected. If we need bogeymen, so be it, but I can't stand by and watch these creations anthropo-morph into something genuinely harmful. Although Santa Claus is self-evidently real, the twin bogeymen of 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕 and 𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕝 are not. And when we tell ourselves that they are, and invent stories about and around them, of scary entities whose
actual existence we assert, then it all has to stop.
Oh, and to those atheists who should know better: there
is a God, but there is no good or evil, only life, and the places where it dwells (i.e. the universe).