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Most people who’ve thought about whether God exists have also thought about how the presence of evil in the world bears on this question. Many have supposed that evil is incompatible with God’s existence, and since there’s obviously quite a lot of evil in the world, it follows that God doesn’t exist. Of course, the main premise in that argument is the incompatibility thesis. Why think that it’s true? The classic argument is something like this: God is supposed to be omnipoten

Growing up in church, one gets accustomed to a lot of acronyms. You also get used to a lot of 3 to 5 point sermons with words that all start with “p” or all end in “ation.” If you grew up in the youth group or “contemporary” church era you might be used to pastors with frosted tips, untucked button downs from Gap, or sermons that start with “my wife is super hot” during the marriage/purity sermons. Christian culture tends to be predictable. One of the acronyms I learned as a