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Uttarakhand Tragedy – the Questions one prefers to Ignore
Humanist Outlook (2013)
  • Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, National Institute of Advanced Studies
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Abstract

This article questions the existence of God. By invoking tragedies in natural disasters it asks the same question what the French philosopher Voltaire had asked two and half centuries before - How could a just and compassionate God seek to punish sins through such terrible means?

Keywords
  • Existence of God,
  • Atheism,
  • Spirit of enquiry
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Citation Information
Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan. "Uttarakhand Tragedy – the Questions one prefers to Ignore" Humanist Outlook Vol. 13 Iss. 9 (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hippu/46/