Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “frankly,” came with a note, “Only bad people believe in hell.” Once again we have to deal with the problem of theodicy: that most weaselly branch of theology that deals with the question of why a good God would allow evil and suffering in the world. Mo has a solution, but it applies specifically for the barmaid:
My definition of “theodicy” is “making excuses for God”.
Barmaid is demonstrating Gnosticism.
Like, 100.0% Gnosticism.
Rarely do I read of people questioning the premise that God is good. If one accepts as a premise that God is not good, then all the contorted “explanations” for evil would go away. Parsimony suggests that, if God exists at all, the latter premise is more likely than the former.