Why is this god a he?

If god is evil so what.? After all, goodness and badness are subjective topics for humans.And god decides what is good and bad

This is Honestly a very weak argument that stems from assumptions Western cultures make about the nature of God ( ie they view god as basically a really large powerful man)

The thing called God could be a Deity with Psychopathic characteristics and if so this would not be a valid paradox .But all one needs is common sense not to believe in god .This paradox is only based on one interpretation of what a god is supposed to be

Not believing in any gods solved the problem for me.

The so called paradox assumes that human and divine definitions of evil are the same .The fact is that human definitions of evil are not the same across cultures or individuals for that matter, this means the main assumption really can’t be justified.From a undefined gods point of view It is possible that there might not be such a thing as evil .In that case there would be no paradox.

God and dog both must wag their tails before their masters

It is only a paradox if one believes.

In my experience, studying theology and philosophy of religion, even the modst highly-thought-of theologians can't produce an acceptable answer and have to fall back on 'There are some things which will always remain a mystery'. It doesn't seem to change their beliefs, though.

It's the original statement of what we now call the Problem of Evil (although I prefer to call it the Problem of Suffering, evil being a religiously loaded word and a distraction). And it's one of the most powerful logical conundrums posed to theism.

The have no choice but to either throw one or more of the so-called "tri-omni" attributes of god under the bus to make him compatible with human suffering (most often, omnipotence), or, to rattle on about how god must allow suffering because that would violate Free Will and make us all robots. Despite that this is somehow not a problem in the afterlife, where there is no sin and therefore no ability to sin and therefore everyone conforms and is a robot.

In fact there's a technical term for arguments to address the Problem of Evil (POE), it's called a "theodicy". But constructing a theodicy is impossible, I haven't seen it done yet.

Perfectly stated.

God is food!

Yep.

Well, sure....

This was an interesting take on Epicurus. A little slippin' an' a-slidin' goin' on here, dontcha think?

I think it's spot-on.. Then they'll tell you that they "don't worship the God of the Old Testament, Jesus changed everything, blah, blah.. Or some new-age non-sense, like I worship "a higher power, something greater than me.." Well, no shit.. An undertow current is greater than me. Lightning is greater than me. Are they omnicient, loving, want a personal relationship with me, watching over me, and answering my prayers if I'm a good, little, religitard? Yeah, the evidence points to "No."

Beautiful!

I don't see a paradox, just a statement of fact.

Socrates ran this argument in Euthyphro.