CSPAN2 Book TV January 19, 2013
There may be an all powerful benevolent god and there may indeed finally be a future harmony which is achieved through human suffering but even if this is so and of course it is far from a sure thing, ivan says he would personally reject any harmonious conclusion that required the suffering of that 8yearold. Ivan doesnt say there is no god. Just says that if his plan for us involve such horrors, he cannot and will not accept it and hand back the ticket. I was 18 when i first read this and my younger brother john, 15, had just died a short three weeks after being diagnosed with acute leukemia. ...
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