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CC114: Why Pointless Suffering is Consistent with an All-loving God (Dr. Kirk MacGregor)

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If Gratuitous Suffering Exists, Then God Doesn't Exist.

Rit in the problem of evil is about all the suffering in the world. How can an all loving god allow this bad stuff to happen, basically? And so your response to this argument? Well, let's actually look at in premis premis conclusion form. So if gratuitous suffering exists, then god does not exist. A lot of people grant that premise. They'll say, yes, that's true, but then they'll reject the second premise that says pointless suffering exists. But what you do, which is completely unlike pretty much almost everyone else that i know, is it? You do, you do the exact opposite. I've always at that to be true.

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