Absence of

Sunday, during one of the quiet moments while providing my family some respite from caring for my grandmother, I sat in my parents’ backyard. Away from technology. It was damp out and I reflected on Alzheimer’s and cancer, how unfair they are.

I remember a friend defining evil as an absence of a good that ought to have been there. I don’t quite understand why evil exists, and I know I never will. But over the 12 years I’ve experienced it first hand, I’ve learned that while evil exists, and my inclination is to get rid of it, my only possible action is to let it be. Accept the evil. Let it run its course. Helpless.

That is the biggest and most convincing argument against the existence of a God.

#evil #problemofsuffering #problemofevil

[disclaimer: this is more of a philosophical toned caption. Terms are used a bit more precise than our common day to day speech]