The Problem Of Suffering Is: Why Is

To An Even Moderately Sophisticated And Well-read Person It Should Come As No Surprise That Any Religion At All Has Its Hidden As Well As Its Obvious Beauties And Is Capable Of Profound And Impressive Interpretations. What Is Deeply Objectionable About Most Of These Interpretations Is That They Allow The Believer To Say Yes While Evading Any No.

When Hegel Later Became A Man Of Influence' He Insisted That The Jews Should Be Granted Equal Rights Because Civic Rights Belong To Man Because He Is A Man And Not On Account Of His Ethnic Origins Or His Religion.

The Doctrine Of Original Sin Claims That All Men Sinned In Adam; But Whether They Did Or Whether It Is Merely A Fact That All Men Sin Does Not Basically Affect The Problem Of Suffering.

Here An Attempt Is Made To Explain Suffering: The Outcaste Of Traditional Hinduism Is Held To Deserve His Fetched Fate; It Is A Punishment For The Wrongs He Did In A Previous Life.

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.