Ep 33 – The Problem of Good

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

If God is omni-everything — and especially omni-good — then how can we explain the existence of evil and suffering in the world? In the philosophy of religion, this is not a new question. It is commonly known as The Problem of Evil. It assumes that the God in question is in fact a benevolent God. But what if God were a malevolent God? Would we then have to explain The Problem of Good? This is the question asked by Sebastian Dick, the author of our second listener essay contribution. In this episode, Seb reads his essay and is joined by Glenn Ostlund and special guest panelist Brother Jake to discuss.

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0:00.0	The angels must have sent me to deliver this to you.
0:07.0	Now hear me now, brothers and say,
0:13.0	God is a concept.
0:15.0	God is a concept
0:20.0	by which we measure our pain.
0:27.0	I'll say, I'll say you. God is a concept by which we measure our name is to do.
0:45.0	Because they're saying it's an act of God.
0:50.0	What isn't an act of God?
0:53.0	Look, if you believe in God, that's sort of a definition of him, isn't it?
0:58.0	But he does everything.
1:00.0	Isn't that right?
1:02.0	Everything is an act of him. He's all powerful, he's everywhere at what.
1:06.4	He invented everything. There was nothing before him. He invented time, everything. He's across it all.
1:11.1	Okay? He doesn't miss a trick and he's not absent-minded a volcano going
1:14.5	off it's not like he going fuck I left the oven on you know it's
1:19.1	and who are these insurance companies that can decide what is and isn't an act of God?
1:26.0	How do they know?
1:27.0	Okay?
1:28.0	Have they got a hotline to God?
1:29.2	They call him up, do they?
1:30.7	Ring, ring, ring, ring.
1:32.2	Yellow? Uh, could I speak to God, please? I'm ring ring ring. yellow?
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