New Resource: The Tale of Twelve Officers
J.L. Hinman, one of the contributors to this blog as well as being the author of his own blog, Meta's blog , has written a response to The Tale of the Twelve Officers written by Mark Vuletic and posted on the Internet Infidels website. His response, entitled The Tale of Twelve Officers has been posted on the CADRE's official website (accept no substitutes). The original essay by Mr. Vuletic, is a parable (or anti-parable) about the problem of pain. It seeks to critiques twelve different Christian responses to the problem of pain by pointing out their alleged inadequacies by positing twelve different policemen who observe a heinous crime and do nothing about it for twelve different reasons. The reasons, of course, attempt to mimic the arguments made by Christian to respond to the very real and difficult problem of pain in this world. Here is an example of one of the reasons with Hinman's response: Fourth: [The fourth officer explains his inaction:] "When I first arri...