{"id":1839,"date":"2008-05-30T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2008-05-30T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T08:05:00","slug":"theodicy-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Theodicy meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my great pleasure and interest, people are running with <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/reasonable-atheism-19-four-questions-on.html\">the theodicy meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are the answers I&#8217;ve found so far:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qaya.org\/blog\/?p=528\">Peter<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com\/ancient_hebrew_poetry\/2008\/05\/why-theodicy-is-misguided-reframing-the-debate.html\">John<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/05\/the-unanswerable-questions-meme\/\">Doug<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofiyov.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/theodicy.html\">Iyov<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/velveteenrabbi.blogs.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/theodicy-meme.html\">Velveteen Rabbi<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/velveteen-theology.html\">lovely title<\/a> for a blog)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lingamish.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/28\/an-idiots-guide-to-the-problem-of-pain-or-the-delight-of-theodolite\/\">Lingamish<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/28\/now-heres-a-meme-finally-worth-doing-the-question-of-theodicy\/\">Jim West<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/god-as-real-as-you-or-i.html\">James McGrath<\/a> (and I should say that clicking through to his site made me see a tremendously significant SPOILER for the next episode of Lost which has made me a trifle upset; I normally postpone reading James until after I&#8217;ve seen the relevant episodes!)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kouya.net\/?p=848\">Eddie Arthur<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/journeyman-justpassingthrough.blogspot.com\/\">Journeyman<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ruwm.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/suffering.html\">Tom<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/goulablogger.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/29\/theodicy\/\">Chuck Grantham<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tzvee.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/theodicy-meme.html\">Tzvee Zahavy<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomtally.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/theodicy_happens.html\">Duane Smith<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/onchanting.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/685-suffering.html\">Alto Artist<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ambertemple.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/nature-of-god.html\">Amber Temple<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/you.cowpi.com\/2008\/06\/god_and_evil\">Mark Woo<\/a><br \/>Several responses at <a href=\"http:\/\/raphael.doxos.com\/\">Sarx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and keep tabs on them all and put the links up here.<\/p>\n<p>For my earlier post on the problem of suffering go <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/few-thoughts-about-problem-of-evil.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The meme is being spread around the community of believers (from which I gain reassurance that my perspective is not at all unusual) but criticisms from an atheist angle can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/problem-of-evil-rev-sam.html\">Stephen Law&#8217;s place<\/a>. He&#8217;s written quite a lot about it (see <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/problem%20of%20evil\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my great pleasure and interest, people are running with the theodicy meme. These are the answers I&#8217;ve found so far:PeterJohnDougIyovVelveteen Rabbi (lovely title for a blog)LingamishJim WestJames McGrath (and I should say that clicking through to his site made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,34,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-philosophy","category-theodicy","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-tF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}