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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people assert that a god wouldn't let kids get cancer. Are they ok with animals eating other animals? 
Maybe god just set things up in this universe with the band and lets the pinball game play on. In other universes, maybe something else.
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Most people assert that God, and especially his one "form" of Jesus, is all-loving. Your "pinball" analogy actually highlights the problem rather than solving it. If God is just an indifferent observer who set the Big Bang in motion and walked away, then he isn’t the "loving, personal God" most people believe in. He’s just a cosmic engineer who doesn't care where the ball lands.

Comparing animal predation to childhood cancer is a false equivalence. A lion eats to survive. Cancer serves no biological purpose for the child. If an all-powerful Creator designed a system where innocent children must suffer, we have to ask why a perfect being couldn't design a universe that functions without that cruelty.

God can't be both all-loving and an indifferent spectator who let the game break.[/quote]

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