Chapter 1

Opponents of Theism would point to this point as being totally against the doctrines of the Church: That there is a Loving God, one who is omnipotent, omniscience, omnipresent. Also, the Christian God is all-good and inexplicably, being omnipotent and omnipresent AND all-good, evil still exists in the world.

Evil such as Hitler, such as Pol-Pot, such as *ahem* shall not say.

Then again, there are the environmental evils. Tsunamis happen, droughts happen, people die of AIDS, a terrible illness, spread in Africa not via unprotected sex, but more often, from mothers to daughters to sons.

If God is all-loving, why doesn't He do something?

Try telling "God's will" to a father who lost his family to the tsunami. He'll say "fuck God".

But God allows pain. Why?

Let's be a little cynical for a moment. Let's just say that God's a dominatrix. He thrives in pain, he loves pain.

But then again, if we take away all the pain in the world, all the suffering, take away the droughts, take away the tsunamis, take away human conquest (because it causes wars), take away the holocaust, take away everything evil.

We wouldn't have good. We wouldn't have Saint Theresa (because there'll be no one to help), we wouldn't have heroes like Schindler, we wouldn't have Michael Jackson, who plays with underpriviledge kids.

Fact is, our world would be boring. To borrow a Jedi phrase: "One must go through trials and tribulations before he is learned and before he knows himself."

If God put little bunnies into every manicured field in the world and had humans watch television all day, half the population who loved television would be happy, the other half would not.

If the programme was American Idol, those people who dislike AI would be incensed.

So God could just pre-empt all the world's problems when He created Adam and Eve. Create humans without free will. Then every thing would be nice and smooth sailing. But then, you could never call them Humans.

Bad idea. Evil exists because humans have free will.

If Eve didn't have the free will to choose to eat the apple, we would not have be cast out of the Garden of Eden (If you believe the legend).

And frankly, If God didn't exist, there would be no Moral Ambiguity. If you say that Morality is a question forged through the ages by philosophers and Saints, then where did we get out "concept" of Good from?

If procreation is Good, Why is rape bad? after all, rape is just procreation of the human species.

now to convince myself of my own arguments. perfectly logical. perfectly scientific. and perfectly FOR theism.

Next Chapter of The Book please.

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