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No, he is offering an idea to square a good and loving God with the horrors we see in life. This is known as a theodicy.


How is that a counter argument to what i said?

The best way to fix the problem of evil is to say that the evil has a higher noble purpose and thus is justified. That applies just as much to man as it does to the divine, and has been how the majority of evil acts in the world get justified.

Giving it a fancy name just means it has a fancy name. It doesn't change the content of the idea.


Yep. We could see the exploding callerpillars as being each one of our own unworthy pursuits. They blow up and we do better stuff instead.


more like failed enterprise attempts from people for whom that attempt was the only really viable way at getting out of wage-slavedom.

or, just the exploited wage slaves at their EOL.




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