Does God exist?    Academics and theologians have debated this issue for two millennia.  It is one of the most important questions that we as intelligent human beings can ask.

The classic arguments against the existence of god runs as follow:

THE “EVIL” PROBLEM – Because evil exists, God can not be all-powerful and all-knowing and all-loving.

THE “PAIN” PROBLEM – Because pain, disease and natural disasters to occur,  God can not be all-powerful and all-knowing and all-loving

THE “INJUSTICE” PROBLEM – Arbitrary injustice exists, and bad things happen to good people, therefore an all-powerful God would not allow this to happen if he existed

THE ARGUMENT FROM SIMPLICITY — Since God is invisible and the universe is on different if he exists or does not exist, it is simpler to assume he does not exist.  AKA Occam’s Razor

And now, after after thousands of years of scholarly debate, we finally have a NEW argument against the existence of God, just discovered in Russia.

THE “OH SHI- ITS A LION GET IN THE CAR” PROBLEM – If you invoke God’s protection against a charging lion, and you die, then God can not exist.

Reuters Wire reports — Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God  

KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. 

“The man shouted ‘God will save me, if he exists’, lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions,” the official said.

“A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery.”

The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers are kept in an “animal island” protected by thick concrete blocks. 

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