The problem with not resurrecting cannibals is that they never get a final judgment then. They don't get to have either, like eternal punishment or eternal reward. Where do you draw the line? What if you also e three other people? You can see how it's going to work. Second solution, no, cannibal gets resurrect but everyone else does. So no problem. What's wrong with that?
In our final episode on monsters, we investigate why people who eat people are the funkiest people in the afterlife. We talk to a man who has actually eaten parts of other people, many times, about why he thinks consuming human flesh should be normalized. We then consider the age-old question of how God is supposed to resurrect a cannibal and all of his victims when most of the flesh of the victims would also be a part of the cannibal. Some of the best minds in Western philosophy and Christian theology thought about this question, including Leibniz, Aquinas, and Augustine. Co-hosted by Christina van Dyke, featuring artist and cannibal Rick Gibson and philosopher Dean Zimmerman.
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