The Best of All Possible Worlds

Leibniz lived at a time in which there was much speculation about God and His workings.

It’s unclear how many people, then and now, bought into this idea. Voltaire’s Candide was a parody of the concept.

Three hundred years later, Bertrand Russell certainly wasn’t a believer. He asked, “If you were granted omnipotence and billions of years to accomplish your will, do you think you couldn’t do any better than the Nazis and the KKK?”

Nowadays, we might ask why God installed Donald Trump as the leader of the most powerful country in human history.