![]() ![]() If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?’ If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful which is equally foreign to god’s nature. ![]() If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak and this does not apply to god. ‘God,’ he says, ‘either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, This emotional reaction to pain and tragedy brings many to look to the ancient words of Epicurus as their prosecutor to present their charges against God to Epicurus, Lactantius attributes these words: The sentiment of this line gives words to a feeling that many among humankind have felt, tearfully shouting about their miseries to a seemingly cold and disinterested universe. This is a quote famously said to have been carved into a wall at Mauthausen, one of the numerous concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews. If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness’. ‘My God why have you forsaken me? To bend means to lie. ![]()
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