2120 | God is responsible for the good things, but we must look elsewhere for the cause of the bad things [Plato] |
21404 | There is a rationale in terrible disasters; they are useful to the whole, and make good possible [Chrysippus] |
1893 | If God foresaw evil he would presumably prevent it, and if he only foresees some things, why those things? [Sext.Empiricus] |
2281 | If we ask whether God's works are perfect, we must not take a narrow viewpoint, but look at the universe as a whole [Descartes] |
3955 | If sin is not just physical, we don't consider God the origin of sin because he causes physical events [Berkeley] |
21329 | Nature dispenses cruelty with no concern for either mercy or justice [Mill] |
21328 | Killing is a human crime, but nature kills everyone, and often with great tortures [Mill] |
21330 | Nature makes childbirth a miserable experience, often leading to the death of the mother [Mill] |
21331 | Hurricanes, locusts, floods and blight can starve a million people to death [Mill] |
24187 | Without worldly affliction, we'd think this is paradise [Weil] |
1475 | It is logically possible that natural evil like earthquakes is caused by Satan [Plantinga, by PG] |