HT Hemant Mehta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College Humor has some posters for a challenger for the job of God Almighty, which are definitely amusing. Since I have been grading assignments about the problem of evil, I found this one particularly worth sharing: Click through to read the rest. HT Hemant Mehta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42,101],"tags":[1307,1531,4005,4871,10002,12497],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-job","category-humor","category-theology","tag-book-of-job","tag-campaign","tag-god","tag-humor","tag-re-election","tag-theodicy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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