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Article: God is Dead (And Other Explanations for The Love Guru).
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2008
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In a recent New Yorker essay on the subject of theodicy, James Wood wrote:
Theologians and philosophers talk about 'the problem of evil,' and the hygienic phrase itself bespeaks a certain distance from extreme suffering, the view from a life inside the charmed circle. They mean the classic difficulty of how we justify the existence of suffering and iniquity with belief in a God who created us, who loves us, and who providentially manages the world.
With this philosophical framework in mind, let's look at some of the reviews of Mike Myers' The Love Guru.
"A whole new vocabulary seems to be required. To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious. ...