God is love and yet we see pain and suffereing, evil and sin all around us. How does that work? While I believe there is no way to intellectually work out the realities of evil in the world, I can get there by faith. No argument can prove that God is love, but a life lived by and through Him can.
Belief in God is a matter of faith not proof! 
If makind is to choose responsibily (and isn’t that a big part of maturation in life?), he (she) must learn what it is that they are choosing. And that doesn’t happen by dictating such-n-such actions, nor does it develop by “Smothers-love“.
All forms of totalitarianism, be it secular or religious is damnable!
Evil is the attempt of religion or denominations to impose automatic and unthinking responses and actions to life- especially church life. Hugh Montefiore added, “The inculcation of a particular moral code of conduct by fear of physical punishment or spiritual penalty does more harm than good.”
Try to covince your pastor, priest, or minister of that!
In the many choices that we all make (good and bad), we either learn to accept the lvoe of God, or reject it. The GOOD NEWS is that we can only reject it on this side of our dematerialization. There will come a time when we truly SEE the incredible POWER of God’s love that our freedom chooses none other than IT:-)
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