The Top 15 Excuses Religious People Give for the Horrible Behavior of their God

From an "unknown greater good" to "evil is necessary to prove God's existence" it's all a lot of hooey and post hoc justification.

August Berkshire has a new version of his list, here.

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Wow. Unbelievably turgid arguments, based throughout on a lack of differentiation between "evil" and "suffering", between the existence of a hypothetical divinity and his moral nature. I'm not trying to take a position one way or the other. Just pointing out that, while there may be some good points to be made here, the development of those points is unbelievably sloppy.