Rowan Williams, Richard Dawkins to Debate on Role of Religion

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12. The rational answer is easy

"God" is not authoritarian, but anarchist. Anarchist absolute love can't authoritatively stop or deny any experience but allows and is source of also suffering, and all that suffering can teach and create. Only if and when a sentient being is willing to accept and receive absolute unconditional love it is received and happens. Ignorance is also a choice of love, if all parts of "God" were all-knowing all the time, there would be no change and creation and evolution going on.

So, in such theology "God" is not an authority to put blame on, just source of love that makes it possible to experience what ever you want to experience, and all of that is your own choice. As is the ever present choice of stopping to suffer and experience and return to source.

You don't have to believe so, dunno if I do, but at least it's a rational answer to the theodicy problem.