Throughout history, good has always triumphed over evil.
Doesn’t this strike anyone as rather odd?
It makes sense, not because good is inherently more powerful than evil, but because what we call history occurs at the confluence of three important facts:
- “Good” and “evil” are self-reflexive terms. Each can only be usefully defined in negation of the other.
- No one ever thinks of themselves as being “evil”. Evil is instead performed in pursuit of some goal, often to a perceived benefit.
- History is written by the victorious.
The practical application herein is religious. No group ever sees itself as “evil”. Yet evil is performed daily; violent and destructive deeds committed to prove that “God is on our side”.
All this stands in stark contrast to an overwhelmingly obvious fact: The infinite Universe, in its mind-numbing complexity and overwhelming scope, contains all that we are, were, will be, or could possibly imagine.
Why would anyone think that the Creator of such a Universe, by whatever name given, would have a “side”?