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Why Do the Wicked Proper?

  • Writer: office2465
    office2465
  • Dec 1
  • 1 min read

An old Gospel song sets the question of the day: why do people who act badly not get the punishment they have so richly earned? This type of question philosophers call theodicy: if God is all-powerful, all knowing and all beneficent, why are there people going around committing bad acts? (October 26th, 2025)


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