{"id":462,"date":"2010-01-16T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/16\/haiti-problem-of-evil-and-sentamu-vs-robertson\/"},"modified":"2010-01-16T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:05:00","slug":"haiti-problem-of-evil-and-sentamu-vs-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/16\/haiti-problem-of-evil-and-sentamu-vs-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Problem of evil and Sentamu vs Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter on NSS Newsline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularism.org.uk\/letters-to-newsline7.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">I awoke this morning (Thursday 14 January) to the struggled musings of John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, on the Today programme. He was attempting to reconcile the supposed existence of a loving, omnipotent God with the tragic events in Haiti. The only appropriate response he was able to muster was that he could offer &#8220;nothing which makes sense of the horrors&#8221;. Had he paused at that point, then he would, at least, have been intellectually honest. But, no, he meandered onwards to utter several irrelevant, rambling, and borderline absurd opinions&#8230;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularism.org.uk\/letters-to-newsline7.html\">read on.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Programme available for a short time <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/today\/hi\/today\/newsid_8458000\/8458611.stm\">here<\/a>. I share the frustration of the author of the letter &#8211; what on Earth is Archbishop Sentamu on about (process theodicy?)?<\/p>\n<p>Pat Roberston has a different view on Haiti: &#8220;True story&#8230;&#8221;. At least Robertson&#8217;s explanation is clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter on NSS Newsline here. I awoke this morning (Thursday 14 January) to the struggled musings of John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, on the Today programme. He was attempting to reconcile the supposed existence of a loving, omnipotent God with the tragic events in Haiti. The only appropriate response he was able to muster was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-problem-of-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}