Well, if there's a God decreeing natural disasters, that would count as being premeditated by a creature that possesses intelligence and free will, and yet not coming from human evil, in my book :-)
But I guess I was just thinking of them as evil because they make innocent people suffer. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call them "random bad things." The fact remains that innocent people sometimes suffer because of things that have nothing at all to do with human evil, and that while human evil may explain all "evil" in the word (pretty much has to, if you define it that way, unless you believe that there are other creatures that possess intelligence and free will) it doesn't explain the reason for all human suffering.
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Re: God would even contemplate an evil act like murdering five
Date: 2009-03-28 02:27 am (UTC)But I guess I was just thinking of them as evil because they make innocent people suffer. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call them "random bad things." The fact remains that innocent people sometimes suffer because of things that have nothing at all to do with human evil, and that while human evil may explain all "evil" in the word (pretty much has to, if you define it that way, unless you believe that there are other creatures that possess intelligence and free will) it doesn't explain the reason for all human suffering.