"I started thinking rationally. Unless magic is real, there isn't a god. Also, for everything good that happened, God was thanked, not freewill. But everything bad that happens, like an island for child sex trafficking, gets blamed on freewill."
"Same. I realized that if God were to possess as much power as people claim, all responsibility would ultimately lie with Him. And yet, he either never receives blame or is justified for doing the most evil shit imaginable."
Belief in an omnipotent, benevolent deity is challenged by the coexistence of pervasive evil and selective attribution of responsibility. Positive outcomes are routinely credited to divine intervention while severe harms are often explained away as human free will. If a deity possessed the purported power to control events, ultimate responsibility for both good and evil would rest with that deity. Yet praise is given when outcomes are good, and blame is shifted to free will when outcomes are horrific. This asymmetry produces a moral and rational tension that prompts rejection of divine authorship for reality and motivates atheistic conclusions.
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