lovely stuff (personally I think evil is the most persuasive evidence there's a God. But I'm not entirely sure why I think this, and 'lack of exposure' is certainly a contender).
"I could never be one of those Substackers able to write about the seven thousand books that I have read this year" - Tangential perhaps, but LOL, me neither. Better to read a good book multiple times than to read stacks of not-so-good books.
I know what you mean morbidity aside, I’m always kind of thinking about these things. I returned to orthodoxy eventually (though whether I was ever in it is questionable), but I had a fairly serious Gnostic phase in my early 20s motivated in large part by those questions of theodicy. I just couldn’t believe that someone benevolent had made…. All this. Cheers to another year!
lovely stuff (personally I think evil is the most persuasive evidence there's a God. But I'm not entirely sure why I think this, and 'lack of exposure' is certainly a contender).
Thank you! Well, it's definitely an argument that God should exist, if only to have someone to blame!
Yes, exactly, and to complain to! I think 'the good can take care of itself' - without evil, it just wouldn't occur to anyone to believe in anything.
"I could never be one of those Substackers able to write about the seven thousand books that I have read this year" - Tangential perhaps, but LOL, me neither. Better to read a good book multiple times than to read stacks of not-so-good books.
I know what you mean morbidity aside, I’m always kind of thinking about these things. I returned to orthodoxy eventually (though whether I was ever in it is questionable), but I had a fairly serious Gnostic phase in my early 20s motivated in large part by those questions of theodicy. I just couldn’t believe that someone benevolent had made…. All this. Cheers to another year!