GIM writes:
God is evil if He has miracles and does not use them.
Looking about the world today many see evil happening everywhere. Children starving as the highest evil, all of us sinning as a lower evil.
I suggest that if a miracle working God is in existence and does nothing then He is acting in an immoral way.
I agree. Evil is subjective of course, and I would subjectively view a god capable of seeing anything, and doing anything as evil if he let children and decent people in general starve, be raped, get tortured, and be killed. This stuff happens everyday in the world, so if there's a god, he is evil by my standards.
If a person came up to me one day and told me that he was in the room while a couple of kids raped and killed a younger kid, while he stood by and watched but didn't do anything to prevent it, I would punch him in the face. He was fully capable of preventing suffering, yet he stood by and did nothing. A Christian, too would view this person as evil, yet when god does essentially the same thing, somehow many view him as "benevolent" and "perfect". Strange.
The Problem of Evil (or Suffering) is indeed a problem for a benevolent, omni-everything god.
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