Sunday, September 22, 2013

The paradox of evil


For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful.

A. Camus - The myth of Sisyphus

Wars, global warming, famine... I can not think of an almighty God responsible for such calamities, since no creator would rebel so viciously against his work; unless he wanted to self-destroy himself. I can not think of an non-omnipotent God, because in that case, and in his weakness, would be his creation that would rebel against him.

If the human being were free and responsible, I should assume that there is a human nature and that evil is part of it, since in a totally free manner, he chooses to do evil and self-destruction, which seems to be incoherent with preservation of life itself and the existence of an almighty God who loves his creation.

Thus, I conclude that the human being is not free, because in today's society we hand over our freedom and put it in the hands of the rulers. We experience a false sense of choice, confusing it with freedom. And those governments, pierced by the power of capital, are the ones that lead us to self-destruction: those who decide wars, predators of Mother Earth, those who kill of hunger their own people...


A Somali government soldier outside the ruins of the Mogadishu Cathedral (March 2013)
© Ahmad Mahmoud/IRIN

If almighty God do not want to die, and the human being is not free but responsible for their actions and inactions, I can only think of a non-omniscient God, who is alien to hell on this Earth for Man's work.

When Man is fully aware of the actual and possible things of this world, when he regains his freedom handed over and his alienated power, then and only then we will  be gods on Earth.


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