Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 17:41:29 -0500 (EST) From: Gene Thursby Subject: Re: Fw: God and atrocities (fwd) To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Can you supply the full bibliographical reference for the article by Mackie to which you refer? Thanks. Gene R. Thursby University of Florida P.O. Box 117410, 125 Dauer Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-7410 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 15:17:48 -0700 From:mail.usa.net@usa.net To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: Re: Fw: God and atrocities Regarding the request for information on God and atrocities, in my Sociology of Religion course I refer to an article by Mackie which deals with this fundamental flaw in Christian theology. Christian theologians generally agree that the following statements are true: God exists God is omniscient (all knowing) God is omnipotent (all powerful) God is is benevolent (prefers/intends goodness over evil) Much evil exists in the world (moral evil, suffering of innocents) Criticism of the above belief system: One of these statements must be false for the belief system to be logically consistent. Which statement, then, is incorrect? This criticism is answered by theologians in several different ways, which I will not list here unless there is more interest. In any case, none of the theological answers is satisfactory because each answer invalidates one of the other statements.