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“'If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both. This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form.”
Prepping for a blog post so going to give this a quick read for the first time.
— Nov 24, 2025 05:27AM
Prepping for a blog post so going to give this a quick read for the first time.
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Pippo Boyle
is on page 91 of 162
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his actions do not 'answer', that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe.”
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Pippo Boyle
is on page 39 of 162
“You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the lord of terrible aspect', is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself”
— Nov 27, 2025 10:14AM
