So there are many concepts which the fundamentalist atheists have failed to address. They buy into the traditional monotheist’s implicit claim that the God they deny is not only loving, but also sane and efficient. They do not address these other possibilities I’ve mentioned:
- That there is a God, but he/she is barking mad (the Lovecraft/Fort hypothesis);
- That there is a loving God who is hopelessly inefficient (the Cabell hypothesis);
- That there is a God, but he/she is a malicious trickster (the Mccue hypothesis);
- That there are several gods with divergent opinions (the Homer hypothesis).
- There are good and evil beings who are equally powerful (the Zoroastrian hypothesis).
— Martin Jenkins, Evil From the Outside
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