Why I became an atheist

[GAMEchief]

A) If only it existed,

B) Free will doesn't mean evil people have to be allowed to kill good people. Separation, objective or detectable measurements for evil, answering prayers, helping evil people who want to be good be good (since neither prayer nor religion decrease the recidivism rate.

C) Free will doesn't mean evil has free reign. The God in the Bible, for example, interacted plenty of times to stop evil. Why doesn't this god do that? I don't think any answer is morally satisfactory for an omnipotent being.

[Drakonid]

A) If only it existed,

B) Free will doesn't mean evil people have to be allowed to kill good people. Separation, objective or detectable measurements for evil, answering prayers, helping evil people who want to be good be good (since neither prayer nor religion decrease the recidivism rate.

C) Free will doesn't mean evil has free reign. The God in the Bible, for example, interacted plenty of times to stop evil. Why doesn't this god do that? I don't think any answer is morally satisfactory for an omnipotent being.

B/C)Ideally, it does.

[GAMEchief]

B/C)Ideally, it does.

Ideally, free will means evil exists? I don't see how you can call evil ideal. Those seem like rather mutually exclusive terms.

[Drakonid]

Ideally, free will means evil exists? I don't see how you can call evil ideal. Those seem like rather mutually exclusive terms.

it means what you consider evil exist. I don't see how they are exclusive.