Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Pol Pot, Gregory Baum
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Khmer rouge figured they only needed to 1-2 million people to keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss . Killing fields- beautiful, lush grounds that were used as mass graves. Traditional understanding: justifying the ways of god in the face of chaos and evil in the world. Social scientific understanding: describes a wide range of religious and ideological explanations of the anomic (the chaotic and evil experiences faced by both individuals and societies) If we believe in this god, how does he allow the suffering in the world. All human beings participate in or inherit the sin of the first parents, adam and eve, whose violation of god"s commands (genesis 3) justly brought death and suffering to the world. God hadn"t introduced suffering to the world, we had. Emphasize the educative role suffering can play in human life.