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Is Hell Real?

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Theodicy of God's Goodness

Theodicy is the attempt to justify God in the face of suffering particularly gratuitous or apparently unjust suffering that's a Theodicy I'm trying to explain it. Any attempt to do that involves some kind of basic inference about what goodness looks like as I understand it and one of the most powerful metaphors for capturing that is what would I do to a child especially mine but really any child. If I can't bring myself to do the kind of thing I'm attributing to God then why should I believe that a God would, Randy says.

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