In Ethics in the Sanctuary, Margaret Battin argues that traditional evangelism, directed to promoting religious belief, practice, and affiliation, that is proselytizing, is morally questionable to the extent that it involves unwarranted paternalism in the interests of securing other-worldly benefits for potential converts. I argue that Christian evangelism is justified in order to make the this...

A global pandemic such as that of the 2020 Covid-19 corona virus, causing great suffering and loss life, brings home difficult conditions make for our fragile human life. But question religious belief poses, about “natural evil” in a world created by loving God, satirised Voltaire 18th century, masks more existential problem, possibility greater solidarity. In background is Deist view God compl...