the reality of senseless suffering (link)

The following was originally intended for John Loftus's book God and Horrendous Suffering, but retracted by me after several changes to it that I did not approve of were forced on it by a reviewer (e.g., he insisted that the traditional definition of "libertarian free will" not be used so as to accommodate the fact that a handful of philosophers - for reasons I disagree with - no longer use that definition).

It has now been posted (as close to originally written as I could remember) on Loftus's blog site:

​www.debunking-christianity.com/2023/10/the-reality-of-senseless-or-gratuitous.html