Religion in Rubble (Part 3 of 3)

Steve Paikin, host of the television program "The Agenda", interviews Jack Costello, theologian, on the occasion of the earthquake in Haiti, January, 2010. The conversation revolves around how the earthquake is related to god.

Transcripts of some segments of the video are included below.


Part 2 of 3 / 06:34
JC: "... the Black Plague seemed to be something that continued on its way with the people of Europe unable to get the dog, the god they spoke to, to come forward and heal the situation."

Part 3 of 3 / 00:07
Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil? - David Hume


Part 3 of 3 / 05:59
"We who are, at present, unfairly luckier, whether believers or not, might reflect on the almost invariably uncharitable history of theodicy, and on the reality that in this context no invocation of god beyond a desperate appeal for help makes much theological sense. For either god is punitive and interventionist (the Robertson view), or as capricious as nature and so absent as to be effectively nonexistent (the Obama view)."

Part 3 of 3 / 06:17
"Unfortunately, the bible, which frequently uses god's power over earth and seas as the sign of his majesty and intervening power, supports the first view; and the history of humanity's lonely suffering decisively suggests the second." - James Wood, Jan 24, 2010

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[draagon66]

A fine example of no answers and selective avoidance