VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1388244457|CONTENT|A fundamentalist Christian would probably opine that human beings, including infants, are fallen, the sinful results of Eve’s eating of the fruit, and therefore all deserving of whatever suffering is meted upon them.  More progressive Christians (I’m speaking relatively here) flounder around for explanations which include (a) they don’t actually know but all will become clear at the Last Judgement/Second Coming or (b) God granting us Free Will, thus giving us the freedom to choose between good and evil, (what freedom of choice do helpless infants have?) or (c) that evil exists to encourage us to do good, which seemed to form the basis of Rob Marshall’s argument.  I once heard some theologian assert that God allowed places like Auschwitz to exist in order the give the guards the opportunity to exercise compassion towards the inmates.  Why anyone would want to worship an entity with such warped moral values is beyond me. 
 
The more rational explanations have nothing to with any god, but explain human behaviour in terms of ancestry, evolution and physiology.  They seem far more convincing than any of the theological ones which basically involve attempts to reconcile the concepts of an all-loving good god with an evil world.
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