I thought we were talking about divine intercession in evil generated by humans. So even if he tolerates it out of deep Divine Wisdom, it is still evil, not of His doing but ours.

You could argue, in counterpoint, that If God tolerates it and God is benevolent, then it isn't evil, we just don't see where the good will come from (for example in the slaughters of the Tutsi or Darfur) being much less knowing than Him. But this sounds downright Bushian, and vaguely sickening, given the bizarre premises embedded int he terminology.

It's spinny stuff inventing a term with as much and many meanings as "God" and then having discussions about it. Real wheel-spinning. I'd rather discuss similar but more bounded faith-based terms, such as "caloric", "phlogiston", and "aether".


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