Why an Emotivist Can’t Use Suffering to Argue Against the Existence of God

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg talks about atheist Alex O’Connor’s use of suffering as an argument against God, then he answers a caller’s question about how God could create people with autism—something that adds such difficulties to a person’s life and makes it harder for people to connect with God.

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0:11.0	Oh Hello, friends.
0:34.0	Hello, friends, the show of Stadteracian, and I'm Greg Kokel, your host, and I'm broadcasting from northern Wisconsin, way, way north. Some people ask me, where is that in Wisconsin, way, way north.
0:38.0	Some people ask me, where is that in Wisconsin?
0:40.8	Way, way, way north.
0:42.0	You get to the end of the freeway, and they pick up Highway 51 and keep going north.
0:47.8	And I know we're north of Wausau.
0:50.6	The local burgs are Lacta Flambeau, Woodruff, Managua, not very big, but they're just the right size for me.
0:58.6	And I know it seems weird, I already mentioned this behind me is not a northern Wisconsin animal head.
1:05.5	It's an African animal head.
1:07.0	But nevertheless, I am here and rusticating a little bit, but been working a lot.
1:13.9	And sometimes when I have, at September and, you know, into October now, and leaves are changing,
1:21.0	and I have a lot of work on the east of the Mississippi on my weekends.
1:24.8	I come up here, and then I kind of base out of here to do those
1:29.0	trips and that's what's happening for a few weeks for me. Glad to be here. And I'm glad that you've joined me today. I talked in the last show about the podcast that I was a part of a few weeks ago and just aired earlier this week called the diary of a CEO.
1:48.1	And Stephen Bartlett is the host for that.
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