Why does God allow suffering? Vince Vitale & Julian Baggini

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🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Following atheist Stephen Fry's viral anti-God video, the question of how a good God could allow suffering has come into focus again. Justin is joined by Christian philosopher Vince Vitale, author of "Why Suffering?" as he debates the issues with atheist think Julian Baggini. To watch the video of this debate and Justin's own response to Stephen Fry go to http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Videos For Vince Vitale: www.theocca.org For John Loftus: www.microphilosophy.net For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://www.kaltura.com/api_v3/getFeed.php?partnerId=618072&feedId=1_jlj47tkv or Via Itunes

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0:30.0	Well, good afternoon. Welcome along. I'm Justin Briley your host for unbelievable this Saturday afternoon
0:34.8	the part of faith explored every Saturday here on premier Christian radio when we bring
0:39.2	Christians and non-Christians together for discussion and debate If you want to find out more about
0:43.6	the show, past programs and lots of video resources and articles, Premier
0:48.2	ChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable. And today's discussion is going to be on suffering and God very relevant in light of
0:56.2	the viral video by Stephen Fry that came out about a week ago and has generated a lot of
1:01.5	response online to it.
1:03.0	In that, Stephen Fry, who's a well-known comedian, actor, television personality here in the UK who's an atheist,
1:10.0	describes what he'd say to God if he met him and says why he'd call him a mean stupid
1:15.6	maniac of a God given all the suffering in the world. Well that's what we're going to be debating on the
1:20.6	program today and I'm going to be introducing my guests in just a moment's time.
1:24.1	They are Vince Vitali and Julian Bejini as we look at suffering especially from
1:29.6	the perspective of a recent book that Vince Vitali has co-authored with Ravi Zacharias.
1:34.8	But in response to Stephen Fry himself, I've actually thrown my hat into the ring as it were
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