{"id":863,"date":"2008-05-21T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/05\/21\/problem-of-evil-burmese-cyclone-piece\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:37:00","slug":"problem-of-evil-burmese-cyclone-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/05\/21\/problem-of-evil-burmese-cyclone-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem of evil &#8211; Burmese cyclone piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev Sam has forwarded me a link to a piece on the problem of evil\/suffering. Worth a read&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=1067\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is the author&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">point<\/span>? Seems to be that belief in God provides hope in the face of such horror. But this is irrelevant to the objection raised by the problem of evil &#8211; that such horror is surely extremely good evidence against the existence of such a God.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like saying: &#8220;But believing in Santa provides these starving orphan children with hope&#8221; after those children realize that there&#8217;s overwhelming evidence there&#8217;s no Santa. How does that deal with the evidence?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But I may have misunderstood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev Sam has forwarded me a link to a piece on the problem of evil\/suffering. Worth a read&#8230; here. What is the author&#8217;s point? Seems to be that belief in God provides hope in the face of such horror. But this is irrelevant to the objection raised by the problem of evil &#8211; that [&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-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-problem-of-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}