hmmm which do you think would be more difficult to grapple with assuming it obtained and you were sure of it: an omniscient and just God, or a world bereft of Divinity
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Consider that "omniscient" and "just" are not especially compatible within the milieu your framing assumes.
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Replying to @LieutenantRusty
sounds like your struggling to grapple with theodicy :D
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LieutenantRusty
The fact that theodicy has long and frequently been addressed does not mean it has been addressed satisfactorily.
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Theodicy seems like a uniquely Christian problem; never bothered me none.
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what about Job?
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Job's trials were more transactional. It wasn't that God allowed suffering in the world, but that he specifically visited it upon his most faithful servant. And God's explanation is forever the correct one: "It ain't about you."
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apparently it was about the hippopotamus
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