Indeed, and the vast majority of my ISK over the years has gone toward alleviating that suffering. However, I do not wield absolute power. Thus, any efforts of mine are, especially when compared against the vast scope of any one region, let alone the cluster or the entire universe, an infinitesimal drop in an unimaginably large bucket.
But that’s not absolute power, is it? Unfettered, limitless power, especially in the hands of an omnipotent deity, would also include the power to end suffering without destroying lives. Or are you saying there are limits to what the Amarr God is capable of doing?
Of course it is. Your God wants your worship and your devotion, no? If you don’t critically examine him, is it sincere? It is truly unity and devotion, or simply being willing to be bribed into obedience with an offer of paradise? Isn’t that, after all, just more corruption?
Except that the only reason those sins are sins is God said so. God’s the all-powerful creator, right? So why create evil, billions of years ago when the universe was set in motion? There’s no assumption here, no ‘can I prevent deaths or suffering?’ Your God wields absolute power. Your God has demonstrated the ability to grant prophecy—the ability to inerrantly foretell what will happen. That’s perfect predictive awareness.
It also means that however you fall on the ‘free will’ debate, God knew, long before you were presented with the choice, what you would choose… without any possibility of you ever choosing anything else, because if you choose something other than what God foresaw, that would mean God’s inerrant prophetic ability is, in fact, not inerrant.
So when a being with perfect predictive awareness chooses to create something, it knows, with its unlimited power and perfect prediction, exactly how every single event will play out for any given set of starting conditions.
And it gets to choose the starting conditions. Which means God chose the outcome of every event. God chose for all sins to happen, because God could’ve simply created a slightly different universe to start off. Change the position of a particle, maybe. Or maybe change the rules governing behavior.
God could have… but chose not to. God chose to have all of the atrocities that have happened, happen. God chose to have Gheinok’s band of zealots be persecuted and forced to flee. God chose for Karsoth the Blooder Chaimberlain to take power. God chose all of that. And God chose to label sins ‘sins’.
God could have simply said ‘hey, you do you, I won’t be mad’. Or made a universe where evil doesn’t happen. Your example there presupposes an event happening before the choice to act or not act… but in this case, that would require some other actor’s involvement, who could credibly endanger God… before creation itself occurred.
Is that a theological hill you want to even risk the MIO or Tetrimon noticing you considering dying on?