You are probably familiar with the problem of evil: Why would an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good, all-sexy god allow terrible things to happen to good people?
Theologians have proposed a number of unsatisfying solutions:
- Evil is a necessary consequence of free will, which god needed to give us so that our worship of him would successfully stroke his ego.
- God is still pissed off about the whole Eve/apple/snake situation.
- Many apparently-good people actually sold poison milk to schoolchildren.
- Maybe god will make things right after we die? You can’t prove he won’t!
- In the cases where evil doesn’t kill you, it actually makes you stronger. When it does kill you, well, then, sucks to be you.
- It’s all part of god’s larger plan, which you’re too stupid to understand.
And now, in the wake of a horrific multi-fatality wrong-way freeway accident, religious leaders have proposed a new solution: “stop trying to make sense of the world!”
“Being there, there is just no way to make sense of it,” [Rev. Paul Egensteiner] said. “You can’t. It was an accident. If the question becomes ‘How could God let this happen,’ I say ‘It happened.’”
Not wanting to be outdone, Rabbi Mark Sameth offered his own head-in-the-sand message:
Sameth, who leads Pleasantville Community Synagogue, cautioned against seeking answers or meaning after such a tragedy.
“Tragedy is no time for theology,” he said.
What is the appropriate time for theology? The article doesn’t say, but based on my research I’m pretty sure it’s “the 13th century.”
Now all i see when i turn about the news is everyone yelling about Obama being a Muslim now. He prays every day, and his preacher sends him daily Bible verses as text message every single morning. I do not think a Muslim would go to those lengths just to pretend.