The
problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are
really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our
question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a
purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and
advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no
purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run
by causes, not by purposes.
... W. T. Stace, Religion and the Modern Mind |
