One thing that disappointed me a little about The Problem of Pain is that Lewis never really addressed the purpose for grossly disproportional pain and suffering. This would have been a really interesting topic for Lewis to have included considering this book first published shortly after the start of World War II. Lewis would tends to lean towards a God that allows pain and suffering to exist in the world rather than a God that picks and chooses sufferings for people. Even still why much there be so much pain? Is it really that our view of this pain as disproportional that is incorrect, or is there really more pain in the world than human wickedness can account for? Does our desire for less pain make us overly bias against the need for its existence?
posted by Andrew P at 1:55 PM
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Andrew,
I'm not sure there can be answers to all of your questions in a silly blogger response (possibly a dissertation?), but I thought I'd point out that the atrocities of the holocaust weren't known right away in World War II. I might be wrong, but Lewis might have not known about them during the writing of this book...?
What do you think Lewis would say?
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