divine intervention but not coincidence. it is good to have you here. you ask the question in your article has god forsaken the gop? i know it s tongue in cheek but it is almost like, unlike anything that we ve ever seen storming into a national convention. you know, thomas, i wrote about this a month ago about this theoretical possibility. there s like 0.2%. i don t claim to have a direct pipe line to the big guy but if you look at what some republicans have done in the past, you know, michele bachmann and pat robertson and glenn beck, they have attributed meet logical phenomena to god s wrath. you picture the skinny dipping in the sea of galilee where jesus is said to have performed so many miracles and then you have the hurricane barreling toward tampa. i don t know what you make of that. i think michele bachmann has alleged she s heard god talk to her before. let s get back to the platform. specifically the ban on abortion is even in cases of rape and
jansing & company. thomas roberts is up next. hey, chris. good morning. good morning everybody. the next hour agenda the republicans are trying to force todd akin out of the missouri senate race. akin is digging in. how is the conversation driving the war on women? meanwhile forbes is out with the world s 100 most powerful women. we ll talk about the female elite. then dana milbank asks, has god forsaken the republican party? dana joins me to discuss his take and if divine intervention is the only hope to win the white house. that and much more after this.
significant one is the clear dividing line, it was never going to be about gay marriage, this election. it was always going to be about the economy. and now you have the dividing line. president obama says that mitt romney s record at bain was destructive, it cost jobs, it was profiteering. mitt romney says no, i created jobs. i turned businesses around. i m proud of it. i can do the same with america. you have a connection. let s establish that. your wife worked at bain. you re a romney supporter. you ve said that on the show. but tell me about the argument over private equity in relation to the two stances. well, i ve worked in private equity the last 12 years also. let me just say this. think were romney, i d say bring it on, mr. president. i ve got three things i want to talk to you about regarding private equity. one is private equity companies don t buy jewels. they buy broken businesses. orphan businesses that big companies don t want. so what do they have to do? th
. alisyn: that of course is a hollywood movie, but when bad things happen in real life like earthquakes and tsunamis, many wonder why god would create such natural disasters. is he capable of evil? our next guest says yes, in a certain way, but it s all part of god s plan. clayton: and the author of the new book god forsaken , he joins us to talk about it on this easter sunday. nice to see you this morning. good to be on the the show. clayton: written a lot of books and what was the inspiration behind this book? it was to tackle the problem of suffering. a problem that is not only often invoked by atheists, to invoke or challenge god, and what they struggle with, why does god allow these things to happen. you showed a clip about hurricanes, in some ways, hurricanes aren t evil, but impose a lot of suffering.
means that you were a bad guy in one of your earlier lives. so there s no problem of pain, everybody is getting exactly what they deserve. in judaism and christianity of course we have an idea that god is omnipotent and all powerful and pain and suffering in the world and the problem is one of reconciling god s power and goodness with the fact of evil and suffering in the world. and that s what the book god forsaken attempts to reconcile or tackle. and personal suffering, not just natural disasters, but the book is god forsaken , thank you for joining us. it s a pleasure. some churches are offering more than faith today. they re handing out free gas. they made bold decisions to cut the state s without raising taxes. and a she ll tell us all about