Over at Slate, Ron Rosenbaum reads Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 through the lens of theodicy.
Like many who view metaphysicians with a combination of bemusement and horror, Heller finds the never-ending rationalizations and justifications absurd. No matter how impressive the intellectual gymnastics, theodicy can’t make sense of that which can’t make sense.
Rosenbaum is on to something here, [...]
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Over at Slate, Ron Rosenbaum has penned a manifesto for the “new agnosticism,” which he sees as an alternative to credulous theism on the the one hand and strident atheism on the other. Rosenbaum’s position deserves considerable merit and has some appeal, but I am not sure I can agree with him on this definition:
Agnosticism [...]
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