![]() ![]() are committing an egregious epistemic error, which they then cover up with fantastical explanations when the cracks (which are actually not always epistemic in nature) show. I also don’t mean people who participate in organized religion for social or personal growth reasons, maybe because they think religious texts or priests are particularly wise, but are not believers. I’m an atheist (although, I hope, not an annoying Internet atheist) my impression is that religious people 1 I specifically mean people who posit the existence of a God who has an influence on the material world, and usually one that can be influenced by humans or is specially directed towards them. I picked up this book because of my long-standing interest in understanding why relatively many contemporary intelligent people are religious. (The text is available online in various formats, for instance here.) The book is about the problem of the existence of human suffering in the presence of an omnipotent and good God, often known as the problem of evil. A summary and discussion of The Problem of Pain by C. ![]()
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