Tag: Baldwin, James (1924-87)

Why Do Evil and Suffering Exist? Religion Has One Answer, Literature Another.

In the church of my childhood, we believed God’s angels battled demons in a war for our souls. This was not a metaphor. We were Pentecostals, though not strictly and not always. We weren’t picky about denomination; what mattered was belief in the redeeming blood of Christ, in the Bible literally interpreted and in God’s […]

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