>>514171821
of course shooting an innocent child is evil. that's not the debate.
the question is whether the existence of evil logically contradicts the existence of a God who's omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent.
you keep asserting that it does, but haven't shown why.
you're assuming a perfectly good, all-powerful, all-knowing being would NECESSARILY prevent all evil.
but that's not a logical law, just your personal expectation of how such a being should be have.
here's the problems:
1: you haven't ruled out the possibility that evil serves a purpose beyond your comprehension.
2: you haven't shown that allowing evil is incompatible with perfect goodness
3: you haven't demonstrated that omnipotence must be exercised to prevent every evil
you're not presenting a logical contradiction, you're presenting your emotional reaction and calling it logic.
so yes, evil exists. but unless you can prove that no morally sufficient reason could ever exist to justify its existence, your argument is just irritating internet atheist screeching dressed up as deduction.
also, what the hell is this?
>the point of a syllogism is that the propositions are assumed to be true
where did you hear that?
a syllogism is a deductive structure where the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises IF the premises are true.
but the premises themselves are not assumed to be true by default, they're asserted and must be defended if challenged.
i know i'm not going to sway you in this thread and you're going to keep tutting at me.
but i adjure you, spend some time over the next week learning philosophy/logic.
it might cure your atheism or it might not, but it will definitely make you more uh... yeah.
topics i'd look up:
>syllogisms
>epistemology
>ontology
>modal logic
>theodicy
>metaphysics
>axiology
>philosophy of religion
>cognition bias
>principle of charity