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Thoughts on Evil and the sky

One of the more interesting topics my philosophy professor covered was the subject of evil. Before I go into that however, I'll give a short preface explaining my thoughts. Prior to taking this class one of the main reasons why I so strongly believed that the God people believed in was not all-good was because evil existed. Here's a simple argument for evil. 1. If God were to exist, then that being would be all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good (all-PKG, for short). 2. If an all-PKG being existed, then there would be no evil. 3. There is evil. TF 4. There is no God. Bam, there it was. That was all the proof I needed that God didn't exist. How could there be so much sorrow, pain, hunger, death, and of course, evil if God was supposed to be all-PKG? On a side note, I also think that this simple statement makes an all-powerful God impossible. Can God create an object so massive that even He can't move it? If He can, He isn't all-powerful, if He ...