{"podcast":{"title":"sleepyphilosophyradio","slug":"sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","podcast_index_feed_id":7603911,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10aead048/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44681282/44681282-1777026987033-e668d2591b5ee.jpg","author":"slphilosophy","episode_count":54,"summary":"Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating. If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:17:58.150479+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911"},"episode":{"title":"The Problem of Evil: Why God Allows Suffering","slug":"the-problem-of-evil-why-god-allows-suffering","published_at":"2026-06-19T20:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-problem-of-evil-why-god-allows-suffering","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepyphilo/episodes/The-Problem-of-Evil-Why-God-Allows-Suffering-e3klmb0","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9677041317.mp3","summary":"An innocent man, a burned fawn, and the hardest question ever asked of God. This episode follows the problem of evil from its oldest telling to its newest defenses. It begins with a man who loses everything in a single afternoon and refuses every easy explanation, then traces the great answers, evil as absence, the best of all possible worlds, and the earthquake and the novel that broke optimism's public standing. From there the argument sharpens into the twentieth century, a charge of outright contradiction, the celebrated defense that answered it, a theodicy of growing souls, and a dying fawn that changed the question from proof to evidence. The second half belongs to skeptical theism, the claim that human minds cannot survey the reasons a God might have, and to the objections that press it, moral paralysis, spreading doubt, horrendous evils, animal pain, and divine silence. The episode ends where the argument now stands, between a rock and a rope. Serious philosophy, told slowly and clearly, for listeners who want real ideas as they drift off. Please listen only in safe, restful contexts. SUPPORT THE SHOW Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote Becoming a member keeps these episodes coming and unlocks the members only library of exclusive book summary episodes, a growing shelf of great books read closely and explained in plain language. Subscribe: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/sleepyphilo/subscribe (0:00:00) The Man on the Ash Heap (0:13:21) The Riddle (0:19:35) Evil as Absence (0:29:38) The Best of All Possible Worlds (0:41:30) The Morning Lisbon Fell (0:47:30) The Posthumous Bombshell (0:59:38) Returning the Ticket (1:09:32) After Auschwitz (1:15:50) Three Propositions (1:24:38) The Free Will Defense (1:38:34) The Vale of Sou…","meta_description":"An innocent man, a burned fawn, and the hardest question ever asked of God. This episode follows the problem of evil from its oldest telling to its newest…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":13275,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/episodes/the-problem-of-evil-why-god-allows-suffering/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-problem-of-evil-why-god-allows-suffering.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}