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Lesson 2.1: The Problem of Evil, Part I
Season 2 · Episode 9

Lesson 2.1: The Problem of Evil, Part I

The Luxury of Virtue

March 30, 20261h 1m

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Show Notes

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