(03-02-2026, 05:28 PM)ironyak Wrote: Lava flows and eruptions (aka Pele, an embodiment of Pele, or perhaps Pele's abode for the believers) aren't a product of man's imagination either. Are lava flows and eruptions evil?
If they are caused by a god or goddess to destroy 700 homes, make people evacuate and lose their jobs and livelihoods, I would have to say the god or goddess that caused the lava flow wasn't a particularly nice entity, and yes, I would go as far as calling them evil for all the suffering they caused. It would be nice one day to meet a god that doesn't cause wars, doesn't encourage slavery, won't create pestilence and plague, or make people suffer from terrible illnesses, and instead just makes everyone really friendly and healthy.
But no such god exists. Instead, we have people survive a disaster, say it's a miracle they survived, while the god that created that miracle burned everyone else to death in a disaster that an omnipotent god was capable of preventing.