1- natural destructiveness, eg the Boxing Day tsunami. I feel that Nature is hugely valuable on the whole but distinct from God-the-largely-powerless-carer. I can imagine God grieving over the Boxing Day tsunami, and over every child who dies of an illness we can't solve yet; and rejoicing over every advance in medicine. 2- thinking in terms of a force of evil-- I feel that's a massive buck-passing exercise, though I remember being impressed by Scott Peck's People of the Lie ; must give it another go. 3- sin. To think of sin as infractions of rules seems to me seriously wrong. I think human failure usually comes in the form of callousness, of refusal to feel empathy when we should clearly do so. And what God can very properly charge us with is not giving him/her/it the opportunity to both enlighten us and give us a bit more strength to do The Generous Imaginative Thing. He/she/it will help fast enough if given the chance. And I do buy the Zoroaster vision of the contin...
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