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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Why is there evil?
Message-ID: <1001@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 22:26:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 22:26:36 1984
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Reply-To: mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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In article <1096@trwrba.UUCP> jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson) writes:

> This is a basic problem... why did God put evil in the world.

Good question.  Both Judaism and Christianity claim that God did not "put"
evil in the world; but it is abundantly clear that if He exists, he
allows it to continue.

This a fundamental problem with both Judaism and Christianity, and doesn't
appear to have any really satisfactory explanation which makes everybody
happy.  I suggest, for starters, Harold Kushner's book _Why Bad Things
Happen to Good People_.

I personally don't have an explanation.

Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe