He is on strike?

OR... to get rid of evil he'd have to wipe out humanity, and he's only got so many floods until prayday.

Always remember that when Adam and Eve ate the fruit and knew what they had done they hid and god called them because he could not find them. Suddenly they showed up with clothes on.

The most common "omni" attribute that gets thrown under the bus is omnipotence. This is the approach of the best selling book (many years ago), When Bad Things Happen To Good People. God weeps for us, but cannot help us. I forget the reason the author (a prominent Rabbi) thought so. I would not recommend anyone read the book to find out. It might cause brain damage.

Usually though fundamentalists can't worship a deity who is not all three of those "omnis": all powerful, all knowing, all loving. So they concoct a lame argument from free will, which effectively throws omnipotence under the bus anyway. God can't violate human free will, or we would be "robots" who wouldn't love him of our own volition. Somehow that's not a problem in the afterlife, where sin is magically no longer something anyone could do if they tried; it's only a problem here and now. God can violate free will in the next life, but not this one.

Yeah, I know ... it is an incoherent argument.

Ain't none - not gonna worry my brain over all this !

I don't see this as proof or disproof of a god's existence. I see it as a refutation of the existence of a god that is all knowing, all powerful, and all loving. A dirty rotten bastard god could still exist, according to the argument above.

Evil has nothing to do with God. Evil is just stuff we don’t like to see happen—a very human concept.

Things we don’t like might very well be good and necessary from a cosmic perspective.

I've heard this before. Good stuff.

this has been posted here many times and it proves nothing. there is no god but this isn't what proves it. all this proves is that those who believe in a god need to make their definitions clearer. there is no proof that there is no god. there doesn't need to be proof; you can't prove a negative. however, you can perceive what is possible, and god appears to be impossible. at any rate, my saying this doesn't prove there is no god has not bearing on whether or not i believe there is one. i believe there is no such thing as a god.

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Answer: He's fiction.