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When earthquakes and tsunamis kill and maim, when children suffer painful illnesses and die young, where is the God who is supposedly all-powerful and all-good? When humans suffer severely, if the horrors are not caused by other human beings, it is called ‘natural evil’. For the theist, is natural evil more difficult to justify than moral evil?
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Christopher Southgate is Research Fellow in Theology at the University of Exeter, UK.
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