Only if theists expect very little from their divine being can they defend what their god has failed to do. Either their god is not smart enough to figure out how to create a good world, or god doesn’t have the power to create it, or god just doesn’t care. You pick. These are the options given this world. I’m told that a doubting minister once prayed in a poetic rhyme: “God please do with me as I would do with you, if you were me and I were you.” He pleads: “God please be at least as good as I am…please.” It doesn’t take perfect goodness at all. Just human kindness, the standard god himself
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