Category: Atheodicy and the Impossibility of God

Opening a discussion of the problem of evil as a proof for God’s nonexistence.

God’s proposed attributes simply can’t be reconciled with the presence of evil. But that only poses new moral challenges for atheists.

Most theodicies that defend a good god have mirror twins that defend an evil god.

If we choose to pave our way through suffering with labels such as like “good” and “evil,” we should not expect this to alter our suffering.

How dare the materially privileged bask in the promise of salvation when others don’t have the advantages they enjoy in this world?

All gratuitous suffering makes God’s existence unlikely, but the towering suffering of the Holocaust places it in high relief.

Far from defending the goodness of God, Hick’s portrait of God is so repellent that human decency requires denouncing him without reservation.

“. . . In light of a general optimism on the part of atheists regarding human capacity for good (and evil), how do atheists explain crushing moral evil?”

The necessity of atheodicy—and why humanists and atheists who’ve been harmed by religion will see it most clearly.