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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

A Muslim, a Jew, and an Atheist Try to Explain Suffering

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today we wrap up the worldview overview of suffering with Islam, Judaism, and Atheism. Which of these coping mechanisms have you developed in your life? Next week we'll break down the Christian response, and you decide which is the most complete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.1

Good morning. Happy Friday. Welcome to the morning motivation. This week we're talking about suffering.

0:39.0

Why do bad things happen to good people? What is suffering? How do different worldviews and world religions deal with this thing that we call suffering?

0:46.3

So let's get to Muslims and the Jews. Muslims also an easy way to explain suffering.

0:55.5

I think the Buddhists and the Hindus, it's pretty easy to understand.

0:59.0

And the Muslims have the same way.

1:00.7

It's God's will.

1:02.8

Anything that happens is God's will.

1:06.0

So you must submit to it.

1:08.8

Islam literally means submission to God. So everything is the will of God.

1:14.5

Something bad happens? Well, that's God's will. One could even do bad things and soothe their

1:21.7

conscience by saying, well, it's the will of God. Judaism has this idea that the righteous will not suffer and suffering is only

1:32.3

for those other people. They did it with Jesus. Right? It was, hey, if God is pleased with you,

1:39.1

Jesus, he'll save you. If not, then he's not pleased with you. Pretty simple logic, right? In correct, but it's simple

1:47.4

logic. All these are pretty simple logic. And then when God seemingly did not intervene to save,

1:53.8

to rescue Jesus from the cross, like they expected, well, that was all the proof. They needed

1:58.6

extra proof that they did the right thing.

2:02.2

Many Christians have all these views, but this one in particular, to the point where when

2:07.4

something bad happens to a Christian, were very confused.

2:12.0

Either we're bad, which can't be so, or else God is unloving. He's a bad God, he's a mean God. And I don't

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