In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor D...

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevski states that "the earth is soaked from its crust to its excessively centre with the tears of humanity".

At this remarkably moment there are millions of family who are in despair, who are suffering, who are being tortured, and humanity screams: "Why?" If the trinity is all-good and all-powerful for what purpose does he allow brutality and injustice? This is common of the major questions of human life, to which, quite through history, people have struggled to find a meaningful answer.

Many have sought to explain the question of suffering by dint of treating it as a moot point ...