"We really should wrap up the whole evil thing..."

The problem of evil, pain, & suffering, today's topic in CoPhi, is an intense subject. Far too many suffer far too much to find anything funny in it at all. The most seriously disturbing theistic responses are themselves painful to witness. Bart Ehrman calls it "God's problem" but of course it's ours. Here, though, is what I would say to God about it if I had the opportunity:



And here's what @author says:

in the beginning

Here's an interesting narrative. Nobody's going to buy this one though, right?

magic

Not all magical beings are omniscient, apparently.

Mr. Deity's identity crisis

Seth finally gave us his very funny report yesterday, challenging us all to identify ourselves and then explain why it matters. Why should we care who we are? I blurted out something from the tangled recesses of memory and Python-obsession, about burying a cat. But that's not who I am, honest.

I am, though, a more-or-less cohesive bundle of memories that keeps losing bits, and adding some, and thinking about them a lot. Too much, no doubt. The self, as we already learned, is really hard to pin down.

But it's even harder if you're cosmo-theologically schizophrenic. Ask "Mr. Deity" and his son/father/alter ego/??? (And don't even think about the Trinity yet!)

Who's on first?