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>Basically, Christianity closes its fucking eyes and says that evil doesn't exist despite the fact that the world is created in such a way that cruelty and violence are some of its basic components (For example, Survival of the Fittest).
1. that should only count for Catholicism, not Christianity as a whole, as you yourself pointed out that this is supposedly a Catholic belief.
2. Christians themselves have argued about what good and evil are for centuries, but from my understanding this is nowhere near close to the consensus; Catholics seem to believe that evil is a natural occurence that arises from our corruption when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the forbidden tree.
>Another Christian idea is the concept of best of all possible worlds, the idea that God created the best possible world that could exist and that suffering as it is was necessary for the completion of creation of humans.
That sounds like load of nonsense that unfortunately some Christians
do indeed think. The reality is that the world we are in now was very much not God's intention.
In regards to the problem of evil, the Catholic (if not overall Christian) answer is that while God created good and evil, he didn't create things exactly as they are now; he created creatures with the ability to choose to do either good or evil things. For instance, Satan chose of his own free will to deceive Adam and Eve and to tempt others, such as Jesus, to sin ever since. He wasn't
created to be this way, he was just created with the capacity to choose to be either good or evil.
>Otherwise the only answers I've seen were mostly just "Trust God, he has an answer you can't understand LMAO" which is just ignoring the fucking question. All other theodicies so far were either denying the Problem of Evil or making a really bad fucking argument for it.
Again, I've unfortunately heard of people who actually
have believed in something close to this; but from my understanding of Christianity (or at least, Catholicism) this is false.