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Is God Dead?
Critics of theism rightly ask, “Couldn’t God have created a world in which there was less evil and suffering?” Contrary to the assertion, this is not the best of all possible worlds God could have created. A world in which there was one more good angel or one more good person serving other people would certainly make the world better, wouldn’t it? Better yet, what if God interceded in the affairs of everyday life to eliminate or at least reduce the world’s suffering? That sounds great, but how would that work, exactly?
God performing millions and millions of miracles every second, interceding constantly into people’s lives so that no evil touches them. That really wouldn’t be a world of free-willed beings, would it? Sounds more like the making of a cartoon to me. Instead, the natural laws that govern the world must be allowed to work if 1) our actions are going to have any meaning and 2) if God’s divine hiddenness is to be preserved. Even so, who knows just how much evil God does protect human beings from each day?
