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    Challenges→The mere existence of evil cannot be incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect being.

    The persistent existence of such apparently pointless evils shifts the burden of proof decisively onto the theist, making the claim that evil is compatible with God epistemically unjustified.

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    Compatible/Compatibility(as used in logic and philosophy)
    When two different ideas or principles can exist together without contradicting each other.
    Epistemically unjustified(describes the status of theistic belief in the statement)
    Not supported by good reasoning or evidence; something you shouldn't rationally believe based on logical grounds.
    Theist(describes the person making the argument about God)
    Someone who believes that God (or gods) exists.
    burden of proof(Used to frame the default presumption against coercive institutional structures.)
    The obligation on institutions employing authority, hierarchy, or domination to demonstrate that such arrangements are justified given existing conditions.
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    the problem of evil(Contemporary philosophical terminology)
    The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.

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