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'If God Really Loved Humanity We Would Never Have to Suffer'.
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'If God Really Loved Humanity We Would Never Have to Suffer' This quote summarises one of the main arguments against God's existence. This refers to the inconsistent triad. If God were omnipotent, benevolent, and omniscient, why would he let us suffer? A critic of theism would argue that the only logical conclusion would be that so-called 'God' does not embody one of these qualities, disproving him as the Supreme Being. The most common of these choices being that God is not all-powerful and is ruled by a higher law of morality. An atheist would take this one step further and take the point of view that any God that allows terrible suffering to occur is either not worthy of worship or does not exist at all. It is very hard to deny this view in times of anguish, for example during the holocaust or times of war. Christianity gets round this problem...
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