The essay "Blood on the Tracks" by Mark Sluca was used as an example of how people struggle with the problem of pointless evil and suffering. It was described as an eloquent and powerful expression of the difficulty in reconciling the existence of God with seemingly senseless tragedies.
Mark Sluca wrote a very, very discussed, much discussed essay in Harper's, an excellent essay in Harper's magazine June 2000 called Blood on the Tracks.
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The essay "Blood on the Tracks" by Mark Sluca was used as an example of how people struggle with the problem of pointless evil and suffering. It was described as an eloquent and powerful expression of the difficulty in reconciling the existence of God with seemingly senseless tragedies.
Mark Sluca wrote a very, very discussed, much discussed essay in Harper's, an excellent essay in Harper's magazine June 2000 called Blood on the Tracks.
And in here he gives the most elegant and eloquent expression of this abject to God on the base of evil and suffering that I've ever read, Blood on the Tracks.
What Mark Sluca points out here, by the way, is it's not just suffering in general, in general, or even horrendous suffering, but pointless suffering that is the real problem for our hearts and minds.
It's pointless suffering. That's the problem.
And he said everybody just did everything they could to find a point. For example, one of the first things we said is it was the railroad's fault. There was some negligence or some incompetence or some corruption or something on the part of the railroad or the engineer or the railroad company and no they couldn't find any.