"The fact that people's religion tends to align with the culture and country that they grew up in shows that religion is just a cultural construct"
"There are so many hypocritical people who have used religion to abuse others, to start wars, or to seek power. These people undermine the validity of religion."
"We no longer need God; science explains everything we need to know."
"If God exists, then why is there so much suffering and evil in the world?"
In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of objections to belief in God.
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References and further reading/listening/viewing:
Pew Research Center, The Global Religious Landscape
St. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologiae, 1.2
Trent Horn, Answering Atheism
National Catholic Register,
Does God Want Everyone to Be Catholic?
The Problem of Evil: Actually, It's Complicated
Catholic Answers:
Christian HypocrisyAre You a Hypocrite?How can the Church be true when it produces hypocrisy?
How to Answer the Problem of Evil
Fr Mike Schmitz,
"Judgmental, Bigoted, Homophobic, Elitist, and Hypocritical" (The World’s Perception of Christians)
Augustine of Hippo: God Enlarges the Capacity of Our Soul that He may Fill Us with His Presence
G.K. Chesterton on the Problem of Evil
Bishop Robert Barron,
Bishop Barron on Scientism and God's Existence
Bishop Barron on God, Tsunamis, and the Problem of Evil
Bishop Barron on Atheism and Philosophy
Bishop Barron Comments on Stephen Fry, Job, and Suffering
The Thomistic Institute,
The Problem of Evil (Aquinas 101)
Fr Gregory Pine, Does the Presence of Evil Disprove the Existence of God?
Word on Fire Institute, How the Problem of Evil Points to God's Existence
Peter Kreeft, God's Answer to Suffering
William Lane Graig on the Problem of Evil
The Counsel of Trent, God vs evil (with Alex O’Connor, Joe Schmid, and Cameron Bertuzzi)
Capturing Christianity, God Allows Evil and God is Evil?