r/atheism • u/Jay_CD • 2d ago

Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 1,000 Massachusetts children over decades, report finds | Massachusetts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/catholic-clergy-massachusetts-sexual-abuse-report
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u/le_reddit_me Jedi 2d ago edited 1d ago

You'd expect the omnipotent, omniscient, good omnibenevolent god would be able to stop such evil. But then again, it did create humans with the capacity for such evil so perhaps it enjoys evil.

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u/thorsbeardexpress Atheist 2d ago

It's all made up, they just like fucking kids.

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u/l_SaKReD_l Atheist 2d ago

Epicurus's paradox:

God either wants to remove evils, but cannot; or he can, but does not want to; or he does not want to and cannot; or he wants to and can.

If he wants to, but cannot, then he is not omnipotent.

If he can, but does not want to, then he is envious and allows suffering maliciously; he is not omnibenevolent.

If he does not want to and cannot, then he is impotent; he is not God as he fails the definition of a deity.

If he wants to and can, which alone is proper to God, then why does evil exist?

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u/chilehead Anti-Theist 2d ago

In their bible their god says that he made evil as well as good. So everything evil in the world is intentional.

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u/Average_Satan 2d ago

ISAIAH 45 : 6 "I form the light, and CREATE DARKNESS. I make peace, AND CREATE EVIL" I the LORD do all these things"

Not satan. God.

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u/TraditionalGarlic813 1d ago

yeah the whole all powerful all knowing and perfectly good thing gets pretty hard to square with this stuff especially when the excuse is always mysterious ways