The Case For Faith

Significance of Life Magazine photo

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A Life magazine photo symbolizes tragedy. The photograph is of an African mother holding her dead child. Templeton is disturbed by why God would not intervene to prevent such a tragedy, and so begins to lose his faith (his own tragedy). Tragedy also arises in the idea that no human being with free will went to help the mother, which underscores the important of human free will to do good and oppose evil.