Greetings. It's Wednesday, June the 26th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris

Elkins narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Caroline Levitt, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, was interviewed by CNN regarding Thursday night's debate on their network.

She called moderators Dana Bush and Jake Tapper biased and said Mr. Trump is knowingly going into a

hostile environment. When she persisted with her concerns, the interviewer cut off her microphone.

Mr. Trump's campaign is warning of a three-against-one

ambush that can only favor President Biden. Of course, if the debate were being hosted on a network

and by moderators known for conservative bias, Mr. Biden's campaign might be issuing similar statements.

As Peggy Noon laments in her recent Wall Street

Journal column, journalism has morphed from reporting the news to advancing personal ideologies. We cannot

know in advance how the debate will be handled or how the candidates will perform, but psychologist

Albert Ellis and B.F. Skinner have noted, past behavior is an excellent predictor of future behavior.

The same can be said of media reviews on both sides when the debate is concluded.

Let's apply this discussion to our question this week. Why does God allow innocent suffering,

especially at the hands of those who claim to represent him. Consider a thought

exercise. Janet and I are keeping two of our four grandchildren this week, even though they are

nearly perfect, of course. On occasion, we've had to say no to their requests. In the face of such

setbacks, absent an explanation they find satisfactory, what are their interpretive options?

1. We know the reason for disappointing them, but refuse to say, making us capricious.

2. We know our answer is indefensible, making us sinful.

3. We don't know the reason, making us ignorant.

And 4. We know more than they do, given that we have lived six decades longer than they have, making them children.

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