Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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