thread: 2006-09-08 : Picky-choosy religion, 3 views
On 2006-09-12, Ben Lehman wrote:
Hey, Vincent—
I'm not Sydney, but consider this.
What "the problem of evil" seems to boil down to is "why didn't God make us incapable of evil?" The answer there is pretty plain the theology: God did make creatures that were incapable of evil. They're called angels, and their lives are really, really boring. They are also not seperate from God, being pure extensions of His Will.
God created us because, well, we're more interesting than Angels. And we are. I'd rather be a human than an angel any day, even the most fucked up days.
yrs—
—Ben
P.S. We've already talked about this, but for everyone else: I don't believe this as physical cosmological truth, but I do think it makes a hella compelling story about the presence of evil in the world.
