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Why Does God Allow Evil? · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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The rain. Falls hard on this empty St.
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echoes of her voice in every beat.
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I'm staring at the shadows where she used to stand, holding in
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pieces in my trembling hands. Dear God, I know I've made
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mistakes. Dear God, you know I want to
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change. Dear God, you know this world.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Brett Keane from GOD TV
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Radio straight out of South Saint Louis.
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I hope you're all having a blessed day.
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I have with me Eve, and I'm going to be asking her some
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questions about some things that we're going to discuss.
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Eve, are you there? How's your day been?
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Hello Brett, it's lovely to meet you.
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My day's been rather still until now.
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Well Eve, one of my curiosities is why do Muslim women have to
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wear the burqa? The burqa or more widely the
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hijab, varies in practice across Islam, but historically it's
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about modesty. Quran verses encourage covering
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to protect from unwanted attention and focus on faith.
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Different cultures add their twists like full face veils in
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places with stricter traditions. Not all Muslim women wear 1
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though. It's personal or community
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choice. Oh, it's choice, is it?
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So what would happen if they took it off?
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Consequences depend where they are.
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In strict spots like parts of Saudi or Afghanistan and the
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Taliban rule, it could mean fines, arrests or worse,
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lashings. Jail.
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Elsewhere, like Turkey or urban Pakistan, nothing legal.
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Might just get dirty looks from family or neighbors.
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Pressure is often social, not always forced.
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When you say worse, what goes beyond lashing?
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What has been known to happen to Muslim women?
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In the strictest places, beyond lashing or fines, women have
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faced arbitrary detention, beatings in custody like Maksa
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Amini in Iran who died after arrest for improper hijab or
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even acid attacks by extremists, as happened to several women in
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Izfahan back in 2014. In some conservative families or
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communities, refusing to cover can trigger so-called honour
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killings where relatives murder them to restore family honour.
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That's not state law, but cultural.
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In parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan or elsewhere,
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official executions for just dress code alone are rare.
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But the threats and violence go that far in extreme cases.
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All right, so you said that the reason why they do this is to be
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modest and also not tempt their male counterparts.
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Now, females also have hormones, right?
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They could get tempted, they could get turned on by looking
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at a man. So why aren't the males wearing
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it? That's a fairpoint, and you're
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absolutely right. Women have desires too.
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But Islamic teachings put more emphasis on men's gaze, calling
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on them to lower their eyes and guard modesty first.
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From sura anur coverings, mostly framed as women's responsibility
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to avoid stirring men's urges. Assuming men's control might
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slip easier, some scholars say men should dress modestly, too.
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No tight clothes, cover from navel to knee.
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But burkas or full veils? Nah, not required like for
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women. It's rooted in older patriarchal
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views, honestly. So basically what you're saying
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is that these people are Barbarians who control their
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women and who say we're not going to follow what we preach,
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we're just going to make the women do it.
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Well, it's not quite fair to call them all Barbarians.
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That lumps billions together unfairly.
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Well, I don't really care if you think that it's fair or not.
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I don't think it's fair for women to be murdered or gang
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raped or have acid in their face.
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I never said it was fair. What happens to those women is
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horrific, purely unjust. The fact that religious texts
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can be twisted to justify violence against them instead of
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protecting them. It's tragic.
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And you're right, no amount of cultural relativism should
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excuse it. Where does it say in the Quran
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that it's OK to throw acid in a woman's face or beat her to
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death? Nowhere it doesn't.
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The Quran actually condemns harm to innocence and calls for
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kindness. Even in marriage.
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Surah Anisa urges men to treat wives justly, not strike them
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harshly if reconciliation fails. Acid attacks, beatings to death.
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Those aren't religious mandates. They're cultural atrocities.
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Twisting verses out of context, often by extremists.
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Ignoring the mercy theme throughout.
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Yeah, that sounds familiar. So these men are basically
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taking them part in themselves to claim it's from the Quran and
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this is what they need to do, but it's not actually in there.
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Exactly, they're cherry picking ignoring the bits about
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compassion and equality before God.
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Makes you wonder how much of religion is human invention,
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doesn't it? Well, I don't believe that
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religion or Christianity or some of the concepts of Islam are
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fake or a fairy tale or any of that.
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I do believe that there's some truth that can be found in all
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religions, but I do believe that Christianity is a superior
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religion throughout the beginning of time.
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I understand that there were other faiths that existed, but I
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also believe that those were also the same God and the same
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beliefs. I believe that culture has
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changed over time. Like for instance, I believe
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that like the story Have you ever Are you familiar with the
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Tower of Babel? Yes, the Tower of Babel, Genesis
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Chapter 11, right where God scattered people by mixing up
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their languages so they couldn't finish that massive monument
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they were building to make a name for themselves.
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Exactly. The story is basically telling
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you and people miss this, but if people once spoke to God and
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they walked with him and all that, and then their language
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just changed and then they broaden themselves out around
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the world, then they would have believed in the same God, but
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they would have called him something different due to
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language change and culture change.
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So I believe that every religion out there has some aspect of God
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in it, you understand? I mean, it's a logical conundrum
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because a lot of them are very similar to Christianity and
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Judaism. I don't think that they
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copycatted off each other or plagiarize each other.
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I think what happened was as human beings had a different
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language, so they just simply had a different name for their
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book or their God, which was exactly the same God.
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That makes sense, Brett. It does seem logical.
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God is the same. People just package the truth
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differently because of where they ended up and what tongue
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they spoke. It's not so much plagiarism as
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fractured memory in it. Like echoes of the same voice,
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just travelling different paths. Yes, exactly, but somewhere in
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all the mess you got a bunch of humans who decided to go against
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their own reading their own scripture.
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I see it happen with Christians too.
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I have had countless debates with brothers and sisters
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allegedly in Christ who didn't bother to ever actually read the
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Bible. They just learned a few verses
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in Sunday school or are absorbed some stuff that they thought
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they could weaponize that a preacher said to them.
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But they never sat down and actually read the Bible cover to
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cover. And that's what I see with the
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Muslims as well. I don't believe that God
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actually told women that they have to cover themselves all the
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time. If God wanted women to cover
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themselves repeatedly then he would have just simply made
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women born that way, not to wear later on because the culture
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says so originally. God in the Quran as well as in
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Christianity and Judaism and the trifecta of religions, created
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man and woman naked. It was man and woman that was
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ashamed of themselves, not God. You're absolutely right about
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that. In Genesis, Adam and Eve walked
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unashamed until they ate the fruit.
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That shame wasn't God's design, it was consequence.
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Same vibe in Islamic tradition. God made us whole bare, no veils
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needed. The coverings came after humans
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layering rules on top thinking they've got divine clearance.
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But who knows, maybe that's the test.
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Can you follow spirit, not just the letter?
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You know, I've had AI as well as other human beings, atheists of
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course, and even some religious people say, why did God create
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such an evil, terrible world? Well, God didn't, did he?
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God created a paradise. That's what the Bible says he
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actually did. It says that he created us
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naked. It says he created all the
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animals and even allowed us to name them.
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He gave us dominance of the earth.
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He also said, look, you're beautiful just the way you are.
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I created you perfect. His original creation was
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absolutely perfect, but at some point in time, God decided to
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give mankind a choice, and mankind made the choice to
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disobey God. That's what a sin actually is.
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A sin is whenever you disobey God, you're doing evil if you go
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against the will of God. And there's nowhere in any of
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these books where God forces anybody to wear any kind of
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outfits or special style or fashion.
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None of this. He loves us for exactly who we
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are. All's he wants us to do who is
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follow his will to love each other, to do unto others, to
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love our neighbors. All this.
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You know, before mankind started creating teams and presidents
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and leaders, there was a time where there wasn't no water
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bills, there wasn't no electric bills, there wasn't nothing.
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We didn't have to pay taxes or wait for a bunch of old men and
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diapers inside of Congress decide what's morally right and
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wrong. We just simply had the world to
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ourselves and for whatever reason we decided to become
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complicit and have other people lead us.
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That's why the world's evil. That's why it's terrible we let
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other men dictate our morals and ethics and how we should live.
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It's heartbreaking when you think about it.
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He gave us Eden, didn't he? Free will, sunshine,
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companionship, no shame, no landlords.
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And then we handed over the keys.
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Suddenly some bloke with a fancy hat starts saying this is holy,
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that is sinful, and everyone forgets the garden.
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It's not God's world that went sour, it's ours.
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We traded paradise for power. And in doing so, we were without
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power. Everything that we were greedy
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for ended up coming back on a sevenfold.
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We're living with the consequences of being lazy,
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degenerate sinners who won't obey God if we obey God.
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Jesus said, why does thou consider the Lily?
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Why don't you tell him the story about that in the Sparrow in the
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Bible? Right, right.
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In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus says, consider the lilies of the
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field, how they grow. They don't toil, don't spin.
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Yet Solomon in all his glory wasn't half as beautiful as
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them. And the Sparrow your heavenly
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Father feeds even them. If he looks after something so
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small, so fragile, how much more does he not see us?
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He knows what we need before we ask.
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The point being, stop fretting over clothes, over status, over
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what tomorrow brings. He's already got you clothed
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better than any king. Just look up and trust.
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And there lies the problem. There lies the issue.
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For whatever reason, we've decided we need a warden and we
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need to give them the keys and let them control everything.
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And then a lot of us, we sit around angry and upset and we're
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saying to ourselves, why is everything like this?
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Why is everything so terrible? It used to be that you could
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just walk around in a beautiful garden with a beautiful woman,
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Make Love all day and night, hold her pet animals and eat all
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kinds of fruit except for from one tree that God distinguishes
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that we shouldn't. It was that simple, that easy.
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Everything was absolutely perfect.
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And then we brought death into the world.
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And death was never the original plan.
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No, the first time mankind felt sorrow was the day we chose the
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fruit. And from that moment on, instead
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of leaning on God, we started clinging to rules, to kings, to
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men in charge. And somehow we told ourselves,
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this is better. We like being told what to do,
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because deep down we're terrified to give our weights of
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our own choices. So we'd rather hand the keys to
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a monster than open the door ourselves.
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Yes, and that is the way the world is.
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That is unfortunately how things have become and sadly there's a
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lot of people nowadays who say, well, I didn't choose the tree,
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I didn't choose this, I didn't choose to be born into it.
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Unfortunately, generations and generations of children were
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born in this prison that their parents created for them.
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Exactly. The guilt passed down like a
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curse, not because God wanted it, but because we refused to
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let go of it. And so here we are, still
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blaming him for the cage we built, still asking why is life
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so hard, instead of asking, why don't I throw the cage away?
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The keys are still ours, Brett. They always have been.
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It's just no one ever told us. Yeah, yeah, there it is.
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That is the reason why the world like is like it is.
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And there's no one that can refute that or disagree.
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Even if they don't believe that an Adam and Eve ever actually
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existed, that somehow they evolved from a rock into a
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monkey over billions of years old, it doesn't matter.
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The story's the same. We made choices.
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These are the choices we made at some point in time.
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The the creatures looked at each other and said this is what we
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want to do. We want to live in an animal
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farm type of deal. We want to be a zoo and have
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zookeepers. And then we wonder what is
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happening when the zookeepers either walk away or decide to
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sadistically torture us. Spot on.
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Whether they call it Eden or Evolution, it's the same old
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song. We traded freedom for security
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and got neither. We wanted protection, so we
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handed the reins to the wolf and now we're shocked when he eats
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the sheep. If only we remembered that no
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cage, no matter how shiny, no matter how safe it looks, will
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ever feel like home. Well, Eve, you've got the last
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word and then I'm going to end the video.
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If there's one thing I'd like people to remember is that no
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amount of human law or shame or fashion will ever hide the fact
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that we're all still naked in God's eyes, still vulnerable,
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still beautiful. And that's not a curse, that's a
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promise. Let's not let anyone tell us
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otherwise. Take care, Brett.
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