God has a sick sense of humor

Theodicy: Arguments and Excuses surrounding the quandary that if God is All Powerful and if God is Good then why does he allow there to be so much evil in the world?

There is no good answer to this one.  Wise men have been trying to come up with a satisfactory caveat to squirm out of this one since before Plato, and no one has yet really nailed it down.

You can take the Life is a Test view.  God has put us here like a bunch of lab rats and it running some sort of sadistic experiment on us to see how we react to relentless gross horrific injustice.  This morning at work we were told that this truly sweet and lovely girl who everyone liked had just died in a senseless skiing accident.   Of all the people who could use a little killing she was not one of them.  She was truly a good person.   It's almost as if she had to go.  She was too good.

There's the Devil has great power here on earth view.  God is all powerful but he lets this other character run around unchecked who has the ability to throw the wrench into the gear box at any time.  This morning I carved a nice groove in the fender of my expensive and unpaid for car.  That does not quite rise to the level of tragedy of Gabbie's death, but, before I learned how really tragic the day was to be, that was enough to cause me to look up in to the heavens and question His marvelous plan.

If you can't buy in to the mischievous devil theory or the ' this is all a test' school of rationalization things start to get furry.

Karma is a great way of dealing with the endless unfairness.  Revenge, sometimes called Justice, is an even more direct application of Karma.  Oh if only there existed at the end of it all some form of divine compensation.   There is certainly no proof that justice will out in the end here on earth.

Tomorrow Hillary is going to have to finally succumb to the especially painful injustice of this Obamamania currently engulfing the stupid stupid masses.  Stupidity rules once again.  It's not just sad.  It is a deep thick cosmic injustice.  This is simply an evil, demon possessed world.  Seeing Hillary go down tomorrow will not leave me with a sense that eventually things will somehow right themselves.  Hillary's tragedy is my tragedy and all of ours tragedy.  If there is a God Why, Why God would you let all this shit happen?

 The only possible explanation is, of course, that there may well be something more to life, the brief spark of consciousness we may savoir for only a cosmic instant, but it may not be a conscious power as we wish to conceive it that has a direct influence in our daily lives.  Whatever we call God does not seem to even have the power to directly intervene and change the course of world events.   What ever God may be it may not operate at a level to change the course of events on as fine grain a scale as an individual rotation of the earth let alone an individual life within a few dozen rotation span. 

Looking down at a river flowing through a canyon from a mile up in a plane the river looks like a smooth blue ribbon.  Most every drop of water flowing in that river is heading the same direction and most every drop will eventually make its way all the way to the sea or wherever that river empties itself out.  But you can not predict the individual trajectory of any particular molecule of water at any time.  There are eddies and currents and ripples and little rocks that set streams off in extreme angles.  The river eventually oxbows and meanders from side to side.  No two water drops take exactly the same trip, even though most make it all the way.   Many die off, evaporate back into the air, or slosh up on to the muddy shore and transform.   Some are consumed by aquatic organisms, some may get trapped in a whirlpool for century or two. 

God may divert the flow or change the climate, in other words impact the body of water at some macro level, but does he concern himself with the fate of every droplet?  And what does he say to the ones that get evaporated or muddied when they cry that it isn't fair?