Islamism. In the same way, the rationalistic analyses of ‘evil’ offered by some (‘God allowed the Holocaust to create an opportunity for some people to develop the virtues of heroism, self-sacrifice and so on’ – or perhaps ‘God allowed the Holocaust in order that the modern State of Israel would arise’) serve as recruiting agents for new forms of radical atheism. They would offer the dark, disturbing picture of a god who deliberately allowed a dangerous virus to escape from a Chinese laboratory or market in order that, by killing millions of innocent people, God could issue a general call to
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