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A girl lights a candle during a candlelight vigil. How does tragedy square with the idea of a loving, omnipotent god? Rupak De Chowdhuri

A moral world in which bad things happen to good people

On All Saints Day in 1755 the earth quaked beneath the city of Lisbon. Crowds rushed to open spaces near the sea only to be engulfed by a tsunami. The philosopher Voltaire lamented the tragedy in his Poem…

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