The brilliant Substacker Both Sides Brigade joins me for a discussion about three hot topics in our corner of the philosophy of religion internet: the omission theodicy, the miracle case for Catholicism, and the doctrine of eternal conscious torment.Check out Brian Cutter and Philip Swenson's defense of the archon abandonment theodicy, as well as Brian Cutter's paper on Hell and justice.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:32 The Archon abandonment theodicy explained

00:12:09 Natural evil and the free will defense

00:16:42 The expected costs of Archon failure

00:26:35 Divine foreknowledge and God's failure to intervene

00:34:04 The epistemology of Catholic miracles

00:41:56 Padre Pio's stigmata and carbolic acid

00:46:07 Divine hiddenness and conflicting miracle evidence

00:53:19 The miracle of Calanda and the restored leg

00:59:46 Fátima and the miracle of the sun

01:08:29 Eternal conscious torment and its defenders

01:14:31 Can Catholic miracles justify eternal conscious torment?

01:24:19 The noetic effects of sin and moral skepticism

01:34:09 Can hell be good for those in it?

01:42:05 Can eternal punishment involve finite suffering?