Are God and Christians Evil?

I show that David Lewis’s argument in “Divine Evil” has logical problems and also misrepresents Christianity. He offers a “straw figure” argument and with it commits an ad hominem against Christian people. In “Divine Evil” he fails to acknowledge that in the long and serious intellectual tradition of Christianity, his view of God is unrecognizable. In this tradition, evil is the deprivation of being and is parasitic on the goodness of being. God overcomes it through God’s redemptive actions and, thus, it’s impossible for God to do evil and philosophically irresponsible to say the Christian view of God is evil.