Reblog
Shirley and I are down in London for two nights - visiting Ian and Sarah and Zach. All being well, we will be home on Sunday evening. This blogpost is in fact a scheduled "reblog". I originally posted it in November 2005 under the title "God". Hell, that was almost twenty years ago when we are all so much younger and the world we share was different in many ways and yet very much the same. ⦿ When I was eleven - in my last year of primary school - I had to deliver a prepared assembly talk to the rest of the village school. The only stipulation was that the talk had to be on a religious theme. In my bedroom, I started to scribble down all the reasons why, at that age, I was pretty much convinced that there was no such thing as "God". Though I didn't know it then, one of the key thrusts of my argument had been given a title by philosophers, namely - "The Problem of Evil". The night before the assembly, I became nervous - I hadn't talk...