When people are genuinely mystified by people of faith, the best explanation I can give is one I encountered as a teenager when I read "Jesus Rediscovered" by Malcolm Muggeridge, a socialist and atheist who became a Christian, because this was my experience of it as well. I offer excerpts here: /1
As long as I can believe that god has given us free will I can believe in god. But I cannot accept a god who allows the evils man does to other man. I’ve view organized religion as a way to control behavior so the religion is only as’good’ as the humans speaking for it
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If we have free will, some of us will choose to do evil.
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That lets man off the hook for responsibility for those evils he commits, doesn't it?
