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What you think? [Spirituality & Religion]

"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?"
- Epicurus
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FocusReborn · 26-30, M
God allows evil, because it's what humans choose for themselves. And freewill wouldn't be freewill if it came with limitations or exceptions, and even though we don't want to hear it... evil is every bit as correct and valid as any other choice we can make in life (the fact we associate evil as being "wrong" or "bad" is just an emotional value judgement on our part - has nothing to do with what it actually is, and isn't...)

The questions we should be asking ourselves is: Is evil really what we want. And is evil actually necessary. In both cases, the answer will ultimately be no (when we're speaking of the human race as a collective). Certain individuals will always find a way of saying "yes" so they can further their own habits and agendas, but evil in itself is a lack of a source - it doesn't actually have a specific origin point, other than the unhealed darkness within us. Because it doesn't have a specific origin, there's nothing for it to ever return to. All it can do and all it can know is to continually deny its own emptiness. And it does this mainly through power and control. It will attempt to extract from others what it lacks within...