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Mackie

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‘could not the world have been a little more hospitable and teach us what we need to know’ - e.g genocide of the Jews

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Swinburne

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if God limited suffering, then it would be a ‘toy world where things mattered just not very much’. God would be like an over protective parent. Suffering is limited because of death

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Dostoyevesky

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suffering of innocents and concludes that God must be malevolent and ‘returns his ticket to heaven’

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D.Z Phillips

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true love does not use evil as a means to an end or for a purpose

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Process theology

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it denies that God is omnipotent. God started the world off but cannot control or solve evil. He is suffering alongside us