How is the answer that pain and suffering prove that there is no God a better answer?
This question isn’t meant to be rhetorical. I’ve been thinking about this in relation to the responses in the thread and that answer seems to leave us in a pretty dark place.
If there is no God, the pain and suffering that is used to argue against a loving God becomes a nameless faceless evil that in and of itself is consumptive, fearful, arbitrary, malicious, unchecked, irresistible, etc. To me that appears to be a hopeless fatalism.
If what you feel and believe in relation to pain and suffering is so strong as to deny the existence of God, how do you deal with or explain the very real existence of that pain, suffering and evil ?
