Religious Believers Sometimes Argue That Evil Is Necessary to Achieve

Multiple Choice

Religious believers sometimes argue that evil is necessary to achieve a greater good. Critics respond to this by claiming that

A) there is much more evil in the world than is needed to achieve any greater good.
B) there is no evil in the world; it is an illusion.
C) any suffering we experience in this life will be more than compensated in an afterlife.
D) evil is the absence of good.