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The cartoon\u00a0was shared by Allan Bevere<\/a>, and seems to clearly be one of the Inherit the Mirth series. The request seems as legitimate as the request for help when wine has run out. But if we lived in a universe where such things happened, where would the cut-off point be, and would it not seem unfair and arbitrary to the one disadvantaged by it? One can even believe in a rather traditional sort of Creator God, and still think that a world in which shortages of wine or bath towels are solved through miracles is not the sort of world we live in, nor the sort of world that a benevolent deity would create. The problematic aspects of such a universe seem to outweigh the positives \u2013 even just imagining a scene from it in a cartoon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"