No-Bullshit Spirituality.

Hiking somewhere near the Italian mountain town of Aosta, about five hundred miles from Rome, Timothy Egan's feet began to hurt. While numbering the lessons he learned from completing, mostly by foot, the Via Francigena - a thousand-mile religious pilgrimage spanning four European countries - Egan writes: "I will never hike without blister medication". But Augustine's "philosophy of shit happens" does not absolve God, Egan argues, because if God is truly all-knowing, then he must see all evil deeds "unspooling in advance". [Extracted from the article]

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