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Suffering and Belief in God?

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Fula Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pretorian Joined: 16-Dec-2011 Location: Maryland Online Status: Offline Posts: 170	Quote Reply Topic: Suffering and Belief in God? Posted: 14-Mar-2012 at 06:07
	Does anybody know of any books, scholarship, articles etc that discusses the relationship between suffering and a belief in God?

Don Quixote Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Tsar Retired AE Moderator Joined: 29-Dec-2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4734	Quote Reply Posted: 14-Mar-2012 at 12:33
	There are many articles that explore that, do you need theological or psychological ones? Here a couple psychological ones I googled out http://www.ibcsr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=148:belief-in-god-linked-to-suffering&catid=25:research-news&Itemid=59 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201109/suffering-heightens-belief-in-god The have the stance that suffering hightens belief in god - since suffering is such a painful human experience, and to know that it's random in vain is making it even worse - so people in their effort to compensate for their suffering choose to believe in postpone compensation - religion is psychological phenomenon, not a physical one. Here is a theological one: http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/suffering_luhman.pdf

Fula Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pretorian Joined: 16-Dec-2011 Location: Maryland Online Status: Offline Posts: 170	Quote Reply Posted: 16-Apr-2012 at 12:08
	Thanks...Great info

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