Prof Phil Zuckerman asks why God would allow such misery in so many devout countries (3/8)

Phil Zuckerman speaks in proposition of the motion that This House believes that God is a delusion. Mr Zuckerman is a sociologist, author and professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College, California.

He believes there is no satisfactory single definition of God and ask why any God would oversee a world where secular countries, in general, enjoy a better standard of living than so many devout countries.

This is the third speech of eight.

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