- ...Robertson not Murphy!
- Rex Murphy: God's unappointed spokesman
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The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.
— Authorized VersionAnd then there is the chattering, more insolent, moron who presumes to speak in His name. That would be Pat Robertson.
— Absolutely Unauthorized Verision - Theodicy is a technical term, a survivor from the days when philosophers and religionists argued the (seeming) paradox of a benign God who created a fallen world. If God is good, why does he permit evil?
Over the centuries, the question has absorbed great minds. Milton’s Paradise Lost, written to “justify the ways of God to men,” is the example nonpareil: theodicy in 12 books and (glorious) iambic pentameter.
It’s an almost archaic inquiry these days, but if anything could revive the subject it might be the puzzling existence, in a putatively benign creation, of Pat Robertson, the egregious televangelist and sometime politico south of the border.
His organisation has raised millions of dollars for the developing world and provided an enormous number of university scholarships for inner-city youths. No matter; he’s easy to make fun of.
# Kathy Shaidle
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