Thinking about Suffering and Autism

In this monologue podcast, the speaker addresses the problem of suffering and evil, particularly in response to Emerson Green's video, "The Demand of Theism." While acknowledging they are not a philosopher, the speaker shares their personal struggle with theodicy, finding most attempts to reconcile suffering with a loving God unconvincing and often feeling like "cope." They discuss how the problem of suffering was not a reason for their deconversion from Christianity, but it became a serious problem for theism. The speaker also touches on the problem of suffering and how it extends to autism, intellectual disabilities, or cognitive capacities. The speaker concludes by saying that the only helpful way that they have figured out how to think about this problem is to basically say they are not going to try to explain this and instead do their best to suffer with the suffering and to suffer in solidarity with them.