Quote by Tarsem Singh

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom

Summary

This quote reflects the personal experience of the speaker, who became an atheist at a young age despite having a religious mother. The speaker questions the coexistence of a supposedly loving and powerful God with the presence of suffering and adversity in the world. By contemplating why a divine being would permit bad things to occur, the quote captures the puzzlement often felt by those who observe the existence of evil and find it incompatible with the concept of a benevolent deity.

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