Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Problem of Evil

Let's say that's you go to a science fiction movie about teenagers, and in the movie the teenagers' beloved grandmothers begin to die. They just explode at random intervals. There is no apparent motive behind the deaths. They just happen. The deaths are inevitable and pointless. The teenagers have no option but to adjust to inexplicable horror. In the film this is part of how they grow to adulthood.  

No one has made that movie, but someone did make  "Spontaneous." In "Spontaneous," it's the teenagers who begin to combust for no reason. Some explode in the classroom. The others have to live with that. No choice. They live with the problem of evil. Why do bad things happen to good people? In the film this is part of how young people  grow to adulthood. 

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