I read part of it because I got it as a Christmas gift for a friend. IIRC, the answer is "We have free will" and the lesson is "You have the right to be angry but you must try to forgive".
a) [Insert Higher Power Here] is not omnipotent. Don't get me wrong, it is very, very potent, but it does not have the power- or if it does, there are Highly Compelling Reasons that it isn't exercised in that matter (Creating a utopia free of suffering). This is the POV I hold.
b) [Insert Higher Power Here] may actually have intervened to prevent levels of suffering far worse than anything that has ever been known on earth, but because people have never experienced these levels of suffering, they cannot understand how far down it is possible to go. (This isn't really the POV I tend to ascribe to, but it is an argument I produce when playing devil's advocate.)
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a) [Insert Higher Power Here] is not omnipotent. Don't get me wrong, it is very, very potent, but it does not have the power- or if it does, there are Highly Compelling Reasons that it isn't exercised in that matter (Creating a utopia free of suffering). This is the POV I hold.
b) [Insert Higher Power Here] may actually have intervened to prevent levels of suffering far worse than anything that has ever been known on earth, but because people have never experienced these levels of suffering, they cannot understand how far down it is possible to go. (This isn't really the POV I tend to ascribe to, but it is an argument I produce when playing devil's advocate.)
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