Examines the question of theodicy that has puzzled philosophers from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich: if God is all-good and all-powerful, how can evil exist? Gives a brief history, including St. Iranaeus, St. Augustine, and Alfred Whitehead, and proposes a new answer to "Are people born wicked, or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?"
Music: "Because Its There" by Michael Hedges, "Freewill" by Rush, and "The Saints Are Coming" by U2 and Green Day.
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Reads the poem, "Celestial Music" by Louise Gluck. Demonstrates why the catastrophe in Haiti is an effect of empire, not God. Compares the US military invasion, ala Katrina, to the responses of Iceland, France, Italy, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, and Palestine.
Presents Haiti's history in opposing colonialism and the ways they've paid for this "deal with the devil" - crushing embargoes, onerous debts, brutal dictatorships, and free-market famines. Suggests that Papa Bush and Baby Bush have more to do with Haiti's tragedy than God.
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