One of the most intractable problems for the contemporary Anglo-American theist is reconciling
the enormous amount of apparent gratuitous suffering in the world with the existence of an
all-perfect deity. Suffering Belief reviews the leading attempts at justifying the existence of
evil and salvaging a rational basis of belief in the traditional Western God. Through a
systematic evaluation of the kinds of evil that most strongly call belief into question such
as genocide natural catastrophes animal suffering and disease it is shown that there is
scant basis for continued belief in an all-perfect God and compelling reason for abandoning
such a damaging construct.
