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April 8th, 2026
In which the boys return to the devilishly tricky P of E.
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Epicurus famously said:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
^ Yes, but that is already giving credence to paraphysical powers. There is obviously no god who spoke to any man only egregious liars.. end of…
It is more often interpreted as a riddle that proves the nonexistence of god. Epicurus was one smart dude given that he was hanging out in 300 BCE. It gives one pause. Have we really come very far in our intellectual development since then.
I took a quick glance at a reference out there for those interested in philosophy’s various academic problems, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the formula cited there has 7 steps.
I didn’t go on to read all the pages of discussion, but I think the weak point is probably 4: “If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.“. That would clearly be true if we were talking about, for example, a high school principal, but it seems less obvious that we can critique the motives of the creator of the cosmos.
From the pen of John Callahan — https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=IprVqkNI&id=4F2FB454438793637EECD3E22B0048139328F681&thid=OIP.IprVqkNIq7u6JeRWIZHpZAHaHk&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2FA1tJ5lIyYNL._SL1500_.jpg&cdnurl=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FR.229ad5aa4348abbbba25e4562191e964%3Frik%3DgfYokxNIACvi0w%26pid%3DImgRaw%26r%3D0&exph=1500&expw=1468&q=callahan+cartoon%3A+what+kind+of+a+god+would+let+a+thing+like+this+happen%3F&FORM=IRPRST&ck=D558A407C7B94B631F1D26E8E72BA9E9&selectedIndex=0&itb=0&cw=1143&ch=536&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0
Haha…