ABSTRACT
Taoism, or Homer's outlook. I n all o f these religions the immense human suffering we find in the wor ld is taken for granted and raises no particular difficulties of a philosophical nature. But when it is assumed that there is one, and only one, God who is both all-powerful and allgood and just, then the question arises why there is all the suffering there is. I f he cannot help i t , he is not allpowerful; i f he can but does not choose to, he is not allgood.
