Have you considered the possibility that God is an incompetent moron?

God’s interests are confined to the ocular, he doesn’t do lungs.

Existence of evil isn’t proof that [the Christian] God doesn’t exist, for a variety of reasons, some less obvious than others. Although it’s still very unlikely that he does exist.

Which is generally irrelevant, because faith is entirely separate from objective facts. You don’t need to consider the hypothetical existence of God to be a true fact in order to be a good Christian. To ‘believe’ in him means something else completely, but depending on your language it might not make linguistic sense (assuming it makes sense at all, but that’s a separate discussion).

The same is, however, not true for Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity (stupid ass name), Mormonism, or some others. Mostly because they have nothing to do with Christianity, and are just… well, scams.

Catholicism, and most other Christian denominations, use Christianity in a similar fashion to the Nazis using swastikas.

The main idea of Christianity is that earthly life is essentially an entrance exam for the next, true life. You live your life as best you can, then you’re judged afterwards, and if you pass - you go to heaven, which is supposedly a paradise free of evil.

So evil (or what we generally consider to be ‘evil’) being omnipresent does not prove anything in the context of Christianity. The crucial part is whether or not evil exists in the ‘next life’. Conveniently, we’ll never know until we reach it, so it’ll probably never be possible to prove anything on this topic.

I’m not sure if it’s still possible to track where it all started, but to me it seems quite likely that precisely this idea of ‘true life’ or ‘soul’ being disconnected from physical, observable, empirical reality is where all our troubles with capitalism started.

If this life is largely meaningless, and the real one starts after we die, then sooner or later some people will just do whatever they want. And if humans are the only ‘intelligent’ beings, or the only beings with souls (Christianity + later Enlightenment philosophy), then mass destruction of nature is morally sound.

Then add focusing on accumulation of capital, as well as industrial machinery, and you arrive where we are today, pretty much.

Maybe heaven exists and god takes the good there early as a reward.

Mysterious ways, brah. Mysterious ways.

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Maybe there is just asbestos in the Vatican

if you look at how cancer develops

that doesn’t need God… that just happens here on earth as a random lottery / your life choices

This is simply the laws of nature with no grand design behind them. Read or listen to Christopher Hitchens. He can articulate this position much better than I can. But religion will tie itself in knots trying to explain our lives within its overview. And when we rightly question how things can be we are told we must have faith. No evidence is given because there is none to give. It’s a clever trick.

I’m an antitheist, but just to play along:

God is real, and he’s a fucking asshole.

Fuck the the Catholic Church and anyone that supports it.

If he smoked or other risk factors and genetics have a lot to do with health. Some are more at risk from genes, but bad lifestyle can make various illnesses sooner, worse and advance faster than those who live healthier. There is no supernatural reward for suffering now. We’re all temporary conscious stardust in this time to exist, and all the elements in us will be recycled again. That’s the truth that frees us from the damaging dogmas and conditional belonging. Enjoy being the universe observing itself for this short time, peace!

This always boils down to the Epicurean Paradox.

So, most religious mythology (including Christianity) defines its god as 3 absolutes:

• All good (not a shred of evil)

• All powerfull (its will is our reality, period)

• All knowing (it’s fully conscious of literally everything that happens in its universe)

So how is it that evil can exist? Cuz we can see that clear as day, everywhere. God either…

• is aware of it, has the ability to stop it, and chooses not to, in which case it is not all good.

• is aware of it, wants to stop it, but doesn’t have the ability to, in which case it isn’t all powerful.

• Has the power and desire to stop it, but isn’t aware it’s happening, in which case it isn’t all knowing.

Every single attempt to answer the Epicurean paradox does so by rugpulling one of the three pillars and presenting god as instead only being two of those absolutes. (and if anyone reading this takes that as a challenge, feel free to give it a go).

How can this be explained, other than God doesn’t exist?

Either Christianity and most other religions are being deliberately dishonest about the nature of their gods, or, as you said, god doesn’t exist.

Forking shirtballs, we’re in the bad place!

Anyone whos actually read the bible knows the christian god is a violent genocidal sociopath. It only makes sense he would reward that behavior.