h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As someone who has never experienced any evidence for the existence of God(s) in his meagre 35 years of existence, I find your arguments interesting but (please forgive me) somewhat flawed.

The basic flaw in the standard Christian doctrine is that it tries desperately to have it's cake and eat it. One the one hand, it preaches that God is omnipotent, all-knowing, all-powerful and above all good. On the other hand it preaches that God gave man 'free-will' in an effort to try and explain the bad things that happen in the world. Clearly these two concepts cannot co-exist. If God is all-knowing/all-powerful et al, then surely he/she knew that September the 11th would happen. He/she knew that Jeffrey Dahmer would be a cannibalistic serial killer and he/she also knew from day one that Adam would eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. Therefore, if all of these things were pre-ordained, where does the concept of 'free-will' enter the fray?

Personally speaking i would leave simplistic concepts such as good and bad for children's story time. Reality just isn't that cut and dry. There are no men in white hats fighting the evil caused by men in black hats. As bad as people can behave, and as cruel as situations can get in this world, i have never encountered anything which i could consider to be truly good or evil. I suppose it would be nice to live in a world like that - a sort of StarWarseque reality where you could identify the bad people by the clothes that they wear.

The only absolute truth is this: what may be good for you, may be bad for me, and opposite also applies.