Originally Posted by appleghost

We had a discussion in class today about the existence of god, and the question of why god doesn't stop evil things from happening.
I (being the one who doesn't believe in any deity) argued that an all-loving, all powerful god would be a paradoxal douchebag to not help innocent children from being tortured and molested, even though he/she has given us free will.
The answer to this was that "What separates us from animals is that they only act on instinct, while we have the gift of free will", followed by a gigantic wave of applause, as well as the teacher telling us class was over, leaving me as the loser of the debate.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.