Given the technical sense of ' horrendous ' that we are using, it is clear that infant suffering to death is not and, indeed, cannot be horrendous.
I have argued that the suffering of infants is necessarily neither horrendous nor defeasible.
The defenders were taken by surprise and may have suffered horrendous losses, perhaps their heaviest thus far.
This may be an unexpected, if rather dismal, bonus deriving from the horrendous growth of poverty over the past twenty years.
If a victim of suffering lacks these abilities, then (sadly) her suffering cannot be defeated, but (happily) it also cannot be horrendous.
But her key problem here, we are told, is not her assumption that the defeat of horrendous evil requires such self-conscious beliefs.
Some adoptive parents tell horrendous stories about the difficulty they encountered in their struggle to find the appropriate help for their children.
Or, to state this important point yet another way, infant suffering, especially horrendous infant suffering, is indeed a serious challenge to theism.
