The Waukesha Parade attacker, Darrell Brooks, blamed the Christian God for his actions on November 21st, 2021, when he murdered 6 people and injured over 60 others. This is the problem of evil in philosophy of religion. Why would a deity which is both omnipotent & omniscient allow for evil to exist? As Epicurus famously said:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but unable? Then He is impotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able & willing? Whence then is evil?”
Citations:
Hume, David. Dialogues & Natural History of Religion. Buy here!
Leibniz, Gottfried. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil. Buy here!
Pojman, Louis P., and Michael C. Rea, editors. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Buy here!
