Ape Gone Vegan: The Divine Dilemma of Filled Stomachs
There is this question I got asked by someone on Quora Hindi that ‘ The existence of carnivorous animals in the jungle depends on consuming other animals alive by tearing them apart. If this universe is created by an intelligent creator, what was the need to create such a horrific system of ripping and slaughtering fellow creatures? ’ The moment you phrase the question in such a way from that specific point you dewalls in the field of primary philosophical arguments of The Problem of Evil proposed by St. Augustine . Your concern that this cruelty in nature, where carnivorous animals eat innocent herbivorous animals, is completely contrary to the fundamental idea of an intelligent and benevolent god. Because maybe god is there to protect every living being and resolve their materialistic problems and whenever you pray or burn incense, pray or do aarti or sajda you intentionally asking god to provide you something that you desire and from that moment onwards if there is a god he starts...