The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at
once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even
half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to
attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men
are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct
inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous
root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise,
staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by
experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must
have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired
from a different source, was held.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Problem of Pain
tags: Apologetics Apologetics × Evil Evil × God God ×