The Problem Of Suffering Is: Why Is

The First Function Of A Book Review Should Be, I Believe, To Give Some Idea Of The Contents And Character Of The Book.

Faith Means Intense, Usually Confident, Belief That Is Not Based On Evidence Sufficient To Command Assent From Every Reasonable Person.

Job's Forthright Indictment Of The Injustice Of This World Is Surely Right. The Ways Of The World Are Weird And Much More Unpredictable Than Either Scientists Or Theologians Generally Make Things Look.

Let People Who Do Not Know What To Do With Themselves In This Life, But Fritter Away Their Time Reading Magazines And Watching Television, Hope For Eternal Life... The Life I Want Is A Life I Could Not Endure In Eternity. It Is A Life Of Love And Intensity, Suffering And Creation, That Makes Life Worthwhile And Death Welcome. There Is No Other Life I Should Prefer. Neither Should I Like Not To Die.

The Refusal To Belong To Any School Of Thought, The Repudiation Of The Adequacy Of Any Body Of Beliefs Whatever, And Especially Of Systems, And A Marked Dissatisfaction With Traditional Philosophy As Superficial, Academic, And Remote From Life-that Is The Heart Of Existentialism.