Does karma explain suffering better than the Fall?
Two accounts of why the world hurts: one inherited from a single ancestral act, one accumulated across countless lives of one's own making. Neither is obviously the more comfortable answer.
The problem of evil
All 2 articlesSuffering as evidence against, or a puzzle within, theism.
Why the free-will defence needs a doctrine of the soul
The standard reply to the problem of evil leans on human freedom to explain moral suffering. That reply quietly assumes a picture of the self that not every theist, and no materialist, actually holds.
What a good God owes a mosquito
Animal suffering is the version of the problem of evil that gets the least airtime and may be the hardest to answer, because none of the usual appeals to sin or freedom apply.
Karma and reincarnation
All 1 articleRebirth and moral causation as an alternative to a single created life.