About this episode

This episode explores the Problem of Evil and its implications for belief in a perfectly good God.

If God is perfectly good, then this world demands an explanation—or a surrender of belief. Topics discussed: * The relationship between intellectualism and belief in the supernatural * A Pyrrhonian-style move: examining both sides of the "religion vs. reason" debate * Early Christianity as a countercultural and sometimes anti-intellectual movement * Introduction to Baron d'Holbach—an early, explicit defender of atheism * The notion of the God of the Gaps * The Problem of Evil argument against God's existence

People in this episode

Host: R. C. M. García

Topics covered

• Problem of Evil
• intellectualism
• belief in the supernatural
• religion vs. reason
• Early Christianity
• atheism
• God of the Gaps

Keywords

• Problem of Evil
• intellectualism
• supernatural
• religion
• reason
• Early Christianity
• atheism
• God of the Gaps

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