"Einstein's" answer to: Does Evil Exist?

I came across this the other day; I remember having seen this before. But it’s interesting; it leads to an interesting discussion:

This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?

A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil."

The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.

The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does".
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man’s name --- Albert Einstein

In this little preface, I will just say that God is meant to be all around us, and thus there should be no evil. But if you’re the hard core Christian you will say: but you have to embrace him to feel our savior… I say F that. If He is all mighty and all seeing, all forgiving and whatnot then there should be no evil. That is why I say there can be no good without evil and vice versa. I say this because you cannot have one without the other. If there is only good, we would not be able to determine what is allowed by law, because everything we do must be OK, that is, if the notion of evil does not exist, and I mean you have no idea, you have never heard of it. Then there would be no regulations, everything would be good. If you have two superlatives: good & evil, then we can ascertain different levels in between, like satisfactory, or moderate, etc. the same goes with negative and positive, to have a zero we must have both negative and positive because 0 is neither it is in between, what if we had no 0? Nothing would work out the way it should!

Also religious people have no problem admitting God created good, but without evil there can be no good, so he must have created evil as well, very simple.

So therefore I say for many notions there is an opposite without which the aforementioned notion cannot exist.

Evil is not the opposite of God, but it is of good. Thus there can be no good without evil and vice versa, but there can be evil without God, as can there be good without God as long as you have both variables (good & evil). Therefore making god in essence obsolete in this situation.

My point here was to say, you do not need God to be good. Half my high school teachers were atheists and wonderful people. You need to see evil, realize its wrong (we are human we have brains, we don’t need a supernatural being to tell us that its evil) and act against it, there is no need to embrace the savior into your soul to realize there is evil, and be good.

The professor was right when saying god Created evil IF God created everything, to say god is evil is a whole other discussion, then the supposed "juvenile Einstein" went on a rant to prove god exists, which in essence is completely irrelevant to the subject the professor was addressing, the student attempted to prove the existence of god, which the professor never denied.

So to wrap up, both the student and professor's conceptions were flawed, and biased.
The professor was wrong in saying that God is evil

And the student used a false (and irrelevant) argument to prove god exists, and must be loved in order to avoid evil.

The presence or absence of god cannot be explained through rational deduction, simply because religion is not rational. Though I must say, if you read the Bible rationally and closed minded, you will not believe it.

I mean if you see a movie where a person walks on water turns water into wine, turns 5 fish into 500 fish, born to a virgin, controls oceans, and the list goad on. You will walk out of the theater and say:
"Those were some really good special effects" please the whole book is meant metaphorically and is complete made-up BS (bullsh*t), but has valuable lessons in it from which we can learn.

I do believe in higher power, but in a much different way, and this higher power has no prophets, no churches, no popes, no fake people aspiring influence by claiming divinity or special importance.
To this higher power everyone is equal, at least everyone that does the minimum to "belong" in society, the minimum that is required for them.
There is no church to attend, no priests, because if you worship a higher human being (pope for example), this indicates that not all human beings are equal.
There is no book you are required to read.
All this higher power asks of you is to respect it, think of it, thank it, and regard it.

Beyond that it leaves you free to do as you please.

It is a higher power that coincides with the law and what is right and wrong, if you do something that is the correct and humane thing to do at the time, it will respect and recognize this and reward you for it.

It would never have concurred with the crusades, which were in the name of god and all that is holy, we kill and plunder to ensure the belief of god is spread. How the F**K can you rationalize that?

Also relics, religious objects do not exist to this higher power. The conception that you can only reach god if you: pray to a cross, fold your hands during prayer, pray in a church, et cetera, or that this even facilitates the connection to god, is preposterous. Saying that God is ubiquitous and sees then say "oh but use this cross it will facilitate your prayer to god more easily" is simply straight bull crap. If God really is ubiquitous then he should be all around, at all times, meaning you do not need those flimsy objects to reach god more easily or clearly. And this higher power is, there is no name, no discrimination, no nothing, and you reap the same benefits as from any other religion of sorts.

i could go on and on, but ill leave it here for you, and of course the latter is my own vision.

I would again like to remind you, that this is all my opinion. (but be honest, you can’t deny the logic!)

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-Roger's Opinion