The other day an apostate of a monotheist religion asked the originator of the neutral-inclusive Norm whether 'e agreed that the existence of evil in this world proves that God does not exist.

This the originator said in reply: "For ages theists have been confronted with this so-called 'problem of evil'. The problem for them is not the evil, which every mortal soul would expect, but rather the possible nonexistence of their god or gods. For atheists the existence of evil has always served to prove the nonexistence of gods, whereas for theists it has proved the necessity, if not of a god, then of at least one demon. The awkward problem has brought home to theists how badly in need they are of a more pliable type of logics more willingly bent to what they want to keep on believing anyhow and in spite of everything."

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