The Netflix documentary, Aileen Wuornos, Queen of Serial Killers, illustrates how she alternated between the narrative of victim and killer until the last moment of her death.
Aileen Wuornos - A Dialogue of Theodicy
The Netflix documentary, Aileen Wuornos, Queen of Serial Killers opens the dialogue of theodicy. A theodicy postulates it is reasonable to believe in God despite evidence of evil in the world, and it offers a framework that can account for why God allows evil to exist. Was Aileen Wuornos evil when she killed seven men, or did she act in self-defence since she claimed she was raped? The arguments are personified by two opposing born-again-Christians: 46-year-old Arlene Pralle, who was called by Jesus to adopt 35-year-old Aileen, and John Tanner, the prosecutor who was called by God for a greater purpose, who believed she was an evil prostitute who deserved the death penalty.
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