Wednesday 15 January 2020

On theodicy - the explanation of why evil exists if God is good and all-powerful





5:00  Theodicy and a Jewish way of explaining the world

7:00  Isaiah 45:7

9:00  Good

10:00  The Pope

11:00  Muslims

12:00  Muslims don't read the Koran.

13:00  The English Language and WASPs

14:00  The necessity of a hypothetical supreme authority

17:00  Mandate of Heaven

18:00  The Greek pantheon

19:00  The Titans

21:00  Forethought and Afterthought

24:00  The Abrahamic God is a kind of one stop shopping.

25:00  The rules of warfare

26:00  Empires, war and peace

27:00  Degeneracy and decline of empires

28:00  The Wheel of Fortune

29:00  Preparing ourselves for death and extinction

31:00  Spontaneous combustion 

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60468/how-charles-dickens-fueled-world-spontaneous-combustion-truthers

32:00  The purpose of our life 

34:00  How to treat unsolicited advice

35:00  These things are sent to try us.

36:00  Even gay people can say the next generation should be brought up by two married parents.

37:00  Why there are laws against homicide

38:00  The sins of the fathers  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2014/06/02/what-does-the-bible-say-about-the-sins-of-the-father/

43:00  Beards in the patriarchy, Gillette ads in the matriarchy.

44:00  Roosh V

46:00  The influence of evangelical Christianity is likely to become an important question as Trump finds himself dependent on them for political survival 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/11/trump-administration-evangelical-influence-support

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