Why Did God Allow Mexican Drug Cartels To Murder This Mormon Family?
If you've either been watching the news at all or if you've been scrolling your timeline on Facebook, you are probably aware three moms and six children were gunned down…
Q&A: Follow Up On Objections To The Free Will Defense Against The Problem Of Evil
Since as I have explained before, the email I last sent was incomplete I shall give a better one now with my responses and some additional arguments presented. I also…
Q&A: Objections To The Free Will Defense Against The Problem Of Evil
(Note: Many of these arguments and statements with some modifications and additions were taken from my facebook comment on this article: http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/theodicy_freewill.html)The most successful free will defense argues that in…
An Atheist Moral Objection
This is a guest post written by Phillip Mast. To see more articles by Mr. Mast, go to his blog Theist Thug Life by clicking here. As what tends to…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 8: The Emotional Problem
In this blog series, I've been addressing the atheist's argument from evil. In part 1, I tackled the logical version and established that the atheist has not and cannot affirm…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 7: The Scale Leans Even More
In this series, we've been addressing an argument for atheism called "The Problem Of Evil" or "The Problem Of Suffering". In parts 2-6, I've been addressing the probabilistic version of…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 6: Tipping The Scales In God’s Favor
In this blog series, we've been addressing the atheist's argument from evil. In part 1, I tackled the logical version and established that the atheist has not and cannot affirm…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 5: Suffering As Character Development
This is part 5 in a blog post series on the problem of evil and suffering. In the past 3 posts, we've been dealing with the probabilistic version of the…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 4: Suffering As God’s Megaphone
In the previous blog post, we saw that God can have morally sufficient reasons for permitting suffering. We also saw that given the dizzying complexity of how events and choices…
Tackling The Problem Of Evil – Part 3: The Butterfly Effect
In the previous blog post, we saw that a theistic universe contains suffering because God gave human beings free will, He gave humans free will despite knowing ahead of time…
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