Reply #159: It doesn't mean there is a good reason either [View All]

[Silent3]

Sure, if you want to imagine hypothetical deities or advanced beings or whatnot, it follows that they'd likely be capable of doing things we can't interpret or understand. They might do things that appear to us as mistakes or evil acts, yet they are good actions performed for reasons we can't comprehend.

But just because you can imagine such things doesn't prove that (A) those beings exist, (B) that they don't make mistakes, (C) that they aren't capable of malice or cruel indifference.

An ant is completely incapable of understanding humans, who are comparatively like gods, but that doesn't mean when an ant gets stepped on that the Human was doing what was best for the ant, and that it was all part of a Plan.

You can probably think of examples from your own life where you (or someone you know) benefited from bad things that happened to them ot to their loved ones. Sometimes (some would argue most times) we just don't see the benefit at first.

If you aren't capable of understanding the actions and intentions of the deity you propose, you are just as unqualified to attribute positive gains to the good will of your deity as anyone else might be to attribute suffering to the malice or indifference of that deity.

The simplifying assumption that there isn't any deity involved whatsoever, that bad things often happen randomly, but that nevertheless people are often capable of making the best of a bad situation, makes a whole lot more sense to me.