Bah, you don't have your heart in it today. And I'm surprised at your use of Rand's quote, it's flawed imo.
Richter already answered that question. But let me ask you think. If you really want God to intervene and stop ALL evil from happening, then you no longer have a choice. You dont get to vote for someone like Obama. You dont have a choice on going to church or not. You dont get to pick your religion. You dont get to eat what you like. You dont get to have pre-marital sex. You have to give your money to the church. You are not even allowed to look at a woman with lust if you want to or not, plus a million other sins you enjoy daily. You still want God to intervene and not give you a free choice, "free thinker"?
Apparently when God made the first bacteria he made an error that allowed a tiny amount of psychotic mammals to be born from time to time 3.8 billion years later. Let's cut him some slack huh? Or perhaps during the 3.6 billion years that life existed as single-celled organisms the devil inserted a bad gene in there. Whichever it is, if everyone carried guns like God intended, maybe this guy would not have been able to kill so many sacred animals.
Come to think of it, this thread, if it catches on, will be crushed by the arrival of the Stu v. jem steamroller anyway.
lol. your mind is a thing of amazement. instead of making excuses for gods inaction why not just use the "satan did it" excuse?
Well don't let Jem in, deal with this yourself.... If God was omnipotent and It wanted man to have free will, nothing need interfere. It follows that were God omnipotent and all loving, It must be able to arrange for both. Allowing two choices from many possibilities is not Free will. That's false dilemma. There is no real free will. Only non-rational religious claims of it. If there were no evil there would be no evil to prevent. There are endless numbers of things 'man' is naturally prevented from doing. Why shouldn't evil be just one more.
God interfered with Man's free will the day he kicked them out of the garden. You do remember why he kicked them out, right?
Holy Crap what theology did you just spew, BLT? Good sandwich, but one would be hard pressed to find a more backward-assed theology.