{"id":43278,"date":"2017-07-06T12:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43278"},"modified":"2017-07-06T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:49:16","slug":"existence-evil-evidence-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/existence-evil-evidence-god.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The existence of evil as evidence for God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38218\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/11\/800px-KZ_Mauthausen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38218\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38218\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/11\/800px-KZ_Mauthausen.jpg\" alt=\"The liberation of Mauthausen in May of 1945\" width=\"597\" height=\"420\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, near Linz, Austria, on 6 May 1945, by elements of the Eleventh Armored Division of General George Patton\u2019s Third Army. My father was there that day, though I don\u2019t believe that he\u2019s in this photograph. He raised me with the moral obligation that he himself felt, that the crimes committed at Mauthausen and other such camps must never be forgotten. I HAVEN\u2019T forgotten.<br>(Photo from Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment of my relentless campaign\u00a0against logic, common sense, and basic human decency has now appeared in the <em>Deseret News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865684302\/The-existence-of-evil-as-evidence-for-God.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865684302\/The-existence-of-evil-as-evidence-for-God.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The latest installment of my relentless campaign\u00a0against logic, common sense, and basic human decency has now appeared in the Deseret News: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865684302\/The-existence-of-evil-as-evidence-for-God.html \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The existence of evil as evidence for God&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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