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543: Women and the Gender of God with Amy Peeler

The Holy Post

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Is There a Purpose for Everything?

A lot of conservative evangelicals view themselves as being on the fringe of society. When seemingly random events occur, our instinct is to ask, where's the purpose? What's the meaning here? There has to be a grander explanation. That's not an acceptable answer for people who want to believe meaning and purpose permeates every last event that we experience. So they have to find one. And in this case, the conspiracy theory around vaccines offered that meaning to maintain the perception that the world is a completely understandable and ordered place.

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