Write an essay of 1,000 words that examines the basic positions of each of the five major religious traditions considering these human questions. The five major religions are: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
In your essay, address the following questions:
- How does each religion respond to the problems of evil and suffering?
- How are those responses similar?
- In what ways do the responses differ?
- What factors account for these differences?
- Which way of addressing evil is the most similar to your own? What role does reason play in your personal understanding of evil? How does that overlap or contradict with the major religions' uses of reason in explaining evil?