Study: How Americans Answer the Problem of Evil

Sorry Job, Epicurus, Augustine, and Hume: On the "problem of evil," most Americans don't think much of God's role.On the problem of evil, Pew's pandemic philosophy survey finds few blame God or doubt God's omnipotence, goodness, or existence. Long before Rabbi Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People got Americans talking about theodicy in the 1980s, these famous thinkers wrestled with explaining why an all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful God would allow suffering.