Thread 40901353

“We may not get the answer in this life.”
“God doesn’t protect children from being raped and murdered because we have free will.”
“Satan caused it not God.”
“That horrible thing that happened to you was to make you stronger”

>>40901353 (OP)
I'm an agnostic but I'll steelman Christianity for a moment

Theists have no good answer to the problem of evil and divine hiddenness. However that's really the only good argument for atheism

Atheists have no good arguments against fine tuning, the anthropic argument, the existence of conscious, psycho physical harmony etc

Theism is probably true

>>40901353 (OP)
>“That horrible thing that happened to you was to make you stronger”.

All of the things you mentioned are more or less biblical except for this one. Truth is, nobody knows exactly why God chooses to allow certain evil to come into the life of a christian, and while it may indeed make you stronger, that's not necessarily the main reason.

>>40901378
Atheism is not an extraordinary claim.