Theodicy

How Could God Have Allowed the Holocaust?

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Big Bang, Theodicy, Holocaust, Judaism, Free Will, Gottfried-Leibniz, Religion and Science, God, Elie Weisel, Creation, Religion News

If we agree that humanity must have free will, we must accept the consequences of its decisions.

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Forget God. How Are We Helping Haiti?

Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Relief, Theodicy, Christian Social Justice, Haitiblog, Religion News

This notion that God caused this earthquake as a good thing for the people of Haiti is troubling theology. Where is that "good thing" in the midst of the suffering?

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The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World

Jeffrey Small | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Meditation, Theodicy, God, Suffering, Placebo, Meditation Practice, Prayer, Christianity, Contemplation, Does Prayer Work, Religion News

Do problems with seeing prayer as divine intervention mean that prayer is a pointless exercise? Not at all. Maybe we just need to rethink the purpose of prayer in a modern world.

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Getting Over The Judging God -- A Yom Kippur Reflection

Jay Michaelson | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Theodicy, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur Repentance, Repentance, Judaism, Judgmental God, High Holiday Reflection, Day of Atonement, Jewish Guilt, Jewish Theology, Days of Awe, Jewish High Holidays, Religion News

Is it really such a healthy thing to feel oneself to be inadequate, judged and deficient? Does it make us better people, or does it make us more judgmental ourselves? And does God judge us, or only love?

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If You Meet God On The Road, Kill Him

Christian Piatt | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Biblical Literalism, Exodus, God, Theodicy, Jesus, Christianity, Buddhism, Mysticism, Bible, Caputo, Suffering, Scripture Commentary, Christian Mysticism, God and Suffering, Religion News

By killing all preconceptions we have about who or what God is, we do indeed free God simply to be, as stated in Exodus and by great theologians and philosophers ever since.

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A Questioning Faith: Where Is God When We Hurt?

Derek Flood | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Arthur Custance, Theodicy, Doubt, Jesus Christ, Suffering, Christianity, c.s. Lewis, Suffering and God, Problem of Evil, Doubt and Faith, Spiritual Development, What Is Faith, Christian Faith, Questioning Faith, Religion News

God has created us to recognize the injustice and emptiness and long for something more. God did not have to make us this way. God could have made us like fish, but he didn't. Why is that?

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Ozzy Osbourne And The Apocalypse

Michael Gilmour | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Apocalypse, End of the World, Harold Camping, Heavy Metal, Ozzy Osbourne, Theodicy, Family Radio, May 21 2011 Judgment Day, Sacred Sounds, Judgment Day, Diggin? Me Down, Harold Camping Judgement Day, Ozzy Osbourne Scream, Religion News

Allow me to suggest that comparing the most talked about preacher of 2011 and heavy metal's prince of darkness offers a colorful illustration of a simple point

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The Question Of Theodicy: If God Is All Powerful, Why Must Evil And Suffering Exist In The World?

Jeffrey Small | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Paul Tillich, Theodicy, God, Evil, Suffering, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Dead, What Is God, Alabama Tornadoes 2011, What Is Evil, God and Evil, Why Does Evil Exist, Religion News

Osama bin Laden's death and the southeastern tornadoes have brought to light one of the fundamental questions of humanity: Why do we have evil, suffering, pain and death in the world?

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Jesus: 'Why Do I Allow Evil To Exist?' (VIDEO)

John Shore | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Religion, Christianity, Predestination, Theodicy, Evil, Free Will, The Problem of Evil, God and Evil, Religion News

Theologians and religious philosophers of every stripe are forever bumping their heads up against the "unsolvable" problem of the theodicy -- the question of why God allows evil.

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Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Matrix, Hamlet, Quantum Physics, Christianity, Oxford University, Theodicy, Religion Science, Religion News

I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.

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The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?

Bernie Siegel, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Pain, Relationships, Understanding, God, Illness, Emotions, Religion, Anger, The Bible, Theodicy, Suffering, Disease, Nature, Love, Transcendence, Healthy Living News

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they teach us about the meaning of our life and existence?

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"Radical Evil"

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theodicy, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Atrocities, Morality, Auschwitz, Eichmann, Evil, Destructiveness, Totalitarianism, Nihilism, Books, Books News

Richard Bernstein has written an important philosophical inquiry into the phenomenon of evil (Bernstein 2002), an inquiry that will be of great value to psychoanalysts.

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Why do we Suffer? Three Possibilities

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Theodicy, Faith, Epicurus, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

As a Rabbi, I've found that the most troubling spiritual question for most people is: "Why is life so difficult?" Below are three compelling ideas.

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