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Lesson 2.1: The Problem of Evil, Part I
Season 2
Episode 9
Published 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Description
If God is perfectly good, then this world demands an explanation—or a surrender of belief.
Topics discussed:
- The relationship between intellectualism and belief in the supernatural
- A Pyrrhonian-style move: examining both sides of the “religion vs. reason” debate
- Early Christianity as a countercultural and sometimes anti-intellectual movement
- Introduction to Baron d’Holbach—an early, explicit defender of atheism
- The notion of the God of the Gaps
- The Problem of Evil argument against God’s existence