For believers, suffering is a painful contradiction. Instead of theories (theodicies) that harm, anti-theodicy urges us to ...

Source: Bernhard Christoph Francke/WIkimedia Commons/Public Domain. Many people who have heard of Gottfried Leibniz first heard of him through Voltaire’s satirical Candide (1759), in which Leibniz is ...

Source: Violetbonmua / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 This post is Part 1 of a series. In my view, the problem of human evil has, with few exceptions (see, for example, Jung, Frankl, Lifton, May, ...

If you’re reading this article and you have an objection to the existence of God due to the Problem of Evil, then this article is for you. I actually want to help strengthen your argument against God ...

Critics of theism and Christianity claim not only that God is dead but that he never truly existed in the first place. For if ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...