There is no redeemer.
There is no heaven of glory bright,
and no hell where sinners roast.
Here and now is our day of torment!
Here and now is our day of joy!
Here and now is our opportunity!
Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
(William H. Gass)
Evil and suffering contradict existence of a benevolent god.
If God is all-powerful and all-good, it would have created a universe with no suffering and no evil. But, evil and suffering exist. Therefore God does not exist, is not all-powerful or is not benevolent…
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?(Epicurus)
