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===Secularism=== In philosopher Forrest E. Baird's view, one can have a secular problem of evil whenever humans seek to explain why evil exists and its relationship to the world.<ref name="Mitchell">{{cite web |last1=Mitchell |title=Theodicy: An Overview |url=https://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/documents/TheodicyOverview_009.pdf |website=dbu.edu/mitchell |publisher=Dallas Baptist University |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref> He adds that any experience that "calls into question our basic trust in the order and structure of our world" can be seen as evil,<ref name="Mitchell"/> therefore, according to [[Peter L. Berger]], humans need explanations of evil "for social structures to stay themselves against chaotic forces".<ref name="Peter L. Berger">{{cite book |last1=Berger |first1=Peter L. |title=The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion |date=1990 |publisher=Anchor |isbn=978-0385073059 |page=53 |edition=Illustrated}}</ref>
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