Love, Suffering and Evil: A Neopagan View
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https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i7.28Keywords:
neo-paganism, war, suffering, evilAbstract
No one born in the 20th century can have missed the challenge to spiritual worldviews raised by the carnage of its wars and massacres, as well as the suffering caused by disease, natural disasters and general hard knocks of everyday life. So much pain! So much unhappiness! Neopagan religion celebrates and honors all basic dimensions of existence, but in light of so much suffering, some critics ask whether in doing so we demonstrate a naive or even willful blindness to evil and the omnipresent nature of human affliction.References
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Published
1999-02-01
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diZerega, G. (1999). Love, Suffering and Evil: A Neopagan View. Pomegranate, 7(Winter), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i7.28
