Compassionate Deism and the Grammar of Permission

Both theism and atheism assume that God permits evil. But neither nor make this assumption with due attention to what I call, following Wittgenstein, the grammar of term ‘permission’. When is examined, it becomes clear cannot avoid atheistic force argument from To rescue belief in God, propose adoption a position call compassionate deism. This combination Christian traditional The produced by making slight deistic modification direction non-intervention, deism compassion. Such denies common made both atheism, namely, evil, thus avoids theistic denial reality evil atheist’s God’s goodness.