It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann

Assumed Assumptions Cannot Contrary Existence Fact Involves Much Necessarily Per Simply Somehow Suffering Therefore Two Which Widely

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