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Does Suffering Disprove God?

Does Suffering Disprove God?

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Decisive against one particular God, and three older traditions never signed up to that one.

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The argument from suffering is powerful, and against one particular God it may be decisive: a God who is all-powerful, perfectly good, and the sole cause of everything that happens.

Imported citation, not independently checked: B. D. Ehrman, God's Problem (2008)

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Narrowing the target of an argument is not evidence for any deity, and this page does not claim otherwise.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Asher Wilder, Does Suffering Disprove God?

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In the Zoroastrian picture, Ahura Mazda is not the author of evil.

Imported citation, not independently checked: M. Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism

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Zoroastrian dualism dissolves the problem of evil only in some of its forms, and the tradition argued about this internally for centuries.

Imported citation, not independently checked: M. Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism

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