“Bad Things Happen For a Reason, And Other Idiocies of Theodicy” – Jason BLUM

The Wire, 19 February 2017 The claim that the universe is inherently just implies that those who suffer deserve it. The result is, essentially, a theological form of victim-blaming. For example, the American evangelical preacher Pat Robertson explained the 2010 earthquake in Haiti – which killed between 220,000-316,000 people, and injured another 300,000 – as…