Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Problem of evil✕clear

I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world.

1860

★ 2.0

Personal journal

The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature.

1898

★ 2.1

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

1937

★ 3.5

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

1896

★ 3.5

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Under Western Eyes · 1911

★ 3.6

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Siri, why does God allow suffering?

Veep · 2014

★ 3.6

Poem · Tragedy (play)

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 3.8

Religious literature

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 3.9

There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?

Harold S. Kushner

When Bad Things Happen to Good People · 1981

★ 6.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Novel · Satire

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Candide · 1759

★ 7.6