Author: Bruce Martin Wildish
Bruce Martin Wildish has published articles on skepticism, humanism, and religion.
The Problem of Prayer
In religious philosophy the problem of evil and pain, called “theodicy,” arises from the tension between several mandatory yet apparently mutually exclusive propositions: 1. God is good. 2. God is all-powerful (almighty). 3. Evil and pain exist. There can be no doubting the fact of the third point, and the first two have been fundamental …