Atheism may leave no possibility of expiating suffering

Evidence

Yet if there is no God, the suffering remains, only now there is no possibility of its expiation; if there can be no justice to come, the universe is permanently blighted, irrevocably scarred by atrocity, abuse and torture. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 185

Categorization

• SEED: A serious unsettling thought for belief/atheism debates, worth writing around.
• XREF: connects to: Evil can be read as proof rather than disproof of God’s existence — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 185; Suffering does not diminish as means to abolish it grow; Secular conscience cannot make positive sense of suffering as Christianity once did — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 514

Broader Connections

• Secular conscience cannot make positive sense of suffering as Christianity once did #expands (0.95) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 514
• Suffering does not diminish as means to abolish it grow #complicates (0.72)