{"id":2886,"date":"2013-06-29T06:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T12:42:16","slug":"god-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/06\/29\/god-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"God on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some think it could be urban legend, but we do think that this actually happened in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. The Jews, holding a covenant, a legally binding agreement if you will, with God, decide that God has broken the covenant. After all, how can bad things happen to good people; but not any old good people &#8211; God&#8217;s chosen people? Surely such preference entitles the Jews to a little safer passage along Earth&#8217;s historical timeline, though persecution after persecution? The only logical thing to do, it appeared, was to put God on trial for breaking such an agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The problem of evil is no better investigated in dramatic narrative than in the excellent 2008 BBC drama of this remarkable event in all its terrible context. I urge any and all who have not watched this to do so. It&#8217;s thoughtful, philosophical, critical and very moving. And it&#8217;s written by a Catholic, though feels overtly secular.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"God On Trial - 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tD7v9phroGM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some think it could be urban legend, but we do think that this actually happened in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. The Jews, holding a covenant, a legally binding agreement if you will, with God, decide that God has broken the covenant. After all, how can bad things happen to good people; but not any old good people &#8211; God&#8217;s chosen people? Surely such preference entitles the Jews to a little safer passage along Earth&#8217;s historical timeline, though persecution after persecution? The only logical thing to do, it appeared, was to put God on trial for breaking such an agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,18],"tags":[797,796,795,629,628,89],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality","category-philosophical-argument-against-god","category-problem-of-evil-2","tag-bbc","tag-god-on-trial","tag-holocaust","tag-nazis","tag-nazism","tag-problem-of-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}