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| What is the significance in this? What's worth living for and dying for? |
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| Things we can't explain or wrap our minds around. |
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| Who coined term 'theodicy' |
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| What relationship is existent when explaining theodicy? |
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| The relationship between evil and God. How can God be righteous and right in light of evil in the world? |
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| What question most makes people question their belief in God? When should we ask the 'why' question most? |
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| The question of evil and why/how it happens in the world. Becomes a reason for people to deny God's character. We tend to not ask the 'why' question when good things happen to us. |
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| What is proposition 1 and 2 |
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1) God is good/all powerful
2)There is evil in the world |
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Character in 'Brothers Karmazov"
Sought logical rationalization for everything.
Religious doubt: couldn't reconcile unjust suffering with loving God. |
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French 18th century Enlightenment writer/philosopher.
Argued that if God was judging Lisbon for being a vial city, weren't there other vial cities? Why was Lisbon the chosen vial city? (Lisbon fell in an earthquake, explanation was it fell because it was vial city) |
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Earthquake in 1755
Before earthquake, assumption was prop. 1, and evil was explained away in the process |
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1)Philosophical Atheism
2)Political Atheism
3)Moral Atheism |
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| God cannot be proven on a philosophical level |
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| Say that theism is bad for society; belief in God works against societal good -> leads to divisions |
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Rejects God's existence on basis of a framework right and wrong
Believe that a lot of people use God as an excuse not to do anything |
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