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Why do bad things happen to helpless people? That, more than anything else, is the question that ended the faith of William Lobdell, author of a book I\u2019ve been reading and thinking about a lot recently. The book, Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America-and Found Unexpected Peace<\/em><\/a>, details Lobdell\u2019s inexorable transformation from born-again Christian to what he calls \u201creluctant atheist.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the never-ending scandals Bill covered as a religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u2014priest sexual abuse, corrupt televangelists, manipulative faith healers\u2014that shattered his belief. How could a good, powerful God allow such things to happen<\/em>, he wondered? He never found an acceptable answer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not surprised. The problem of God\u2019s seeming inaction in the face of evil should bedevil all believers. And no, I don\u2019t think the \u201cof course there\u2019s evil, we\u2019re all sinners\u201d argument is a solution. The evils that troubled Bill\u2014priests molesting children, natural disasters wiping out populations, mysterious crippling diseases\u2014were not mere sin. They were senseless, horrific harm done to helpless victims. They begged the question: Why doesn\u2019t God do anything?<\/p>\n

The reasoning animating Bill’s questions usually runs like this: An all-good, all-powerful God would have to intervene to prevent such suffering. Failure to intervene means God either can\u2019t or won\u2019t stop evil. Which in turn means God is either not all-powerful or not all-good. Or perhaps doesn\u2019t exist at all.<\/p>\n

Argument about this issue usually devolves to limit cases. Why didn\u2019t God prevent the Holocaust? Why did God allow the abuses that so horrified Bill Lobdell? Why do believers celebrate every time God seemingly heals an illness or rescues someone from natural disaster\u2014but God is never blamed when the cure doesn\u2019t work or the disaster kills thousands?<\/p>\n

I can understand why such questions eroded Bill\u2019s faith. As posed, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re any more answerable than he did. Unlike Bill, however, the reason I can\u2019t answer them is not because I fear they expose a fatal chink in the armor of faith. I can\u2019t answer them because I think they\u2019re the wrong questions. Nonsensical questions. Questions that begin from false premises and end up sounding fatally weird, like \u201cHow many does yellow have?\u201d Or, \u201cWhere is five?\u201d<\/p>\n

Let me explain. Asking why an all-good, all-powerful God allows evil to afflict helpless people presumes we know the definitions of three exceedingly large, exceedingly difficult words: good; power; and evil.<\/p>\n

Take the first of those words. What do we mean when we say God is good? That God is nice? That God helps people? That God wants everyone to be happy? If you think about it\u2014and I have thought about it a lot lately\u2014you may realize that you don\u2019t know as much about goodness as you thought you did. Or rather, as I discovered, your definition of goodness may turn out to have less to do with the state of the universe or humanity than it does with what happens to be good for you. That is, for many people, goodness equals what I like<\/em> or what I approve of<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Same with evil and power. For me, evil is everything I happen to hate\u2014death, suffering, cheating, everything that harms. Power means power over things, the ability to make things happen, to bend people and things to another\u2019s will. Using those definitions, I\u2019m afraid I would have to agree with Bill Lobdell. A good God who does not use power to squelch evil is not worth believing in.<\/p>\n

But what if I\u2019m wrong? What if those words mean something more, something different than I initially understand? In my faith tradition, Christianity, all the available evidence tells me those words do in fact mean more\u2014far more than I can hope to grasp without careful thought and study.<\/p>\n

Take a single example. The life of Jesus as told in the Gospels is one of poverty, preaching to a hostile public, healings that sometimes take and sometimes don\u2019t, all culminating in public humiliation and death. There it is, a life beset by what I would call evil, failure and powerlessness. And yet we are to believe that Jesus is the very incarnation of God, the clearest, most blatant statement of who God is.<\/p>\n

If God agreed with my definitions of goodness, evil and powerlessness, the world would be a wonderful place\u2014for me. If God agreed with Bill Lobdell\u2019s definitions, Bill would never have had to witness the abuses that so scarred him.<\/p>\n

But of course everything else would be different too. The rest of us would be slaves to Bill\u2019s particular understandings and prejudices. God would not be a God who says things like, \u201cThe last shall be first.\u201d God would be a God of power who intervenes forcefully, eliminates free choice and runs the earth like a puppet show. God would make everyone happy. God would make everyone nice. God would ensure the world never grew bigger or more complex than the human brain and its insistent moral compass.<\/p>\n

Of course it would be terrific\u2014for awhile, anyway\u2014if the God Bill Lobdell demanded and didn\u2019t find really existed. We could dispense with questions and live our (Bill\u2019s?) nice, happy lives. Thankfully, as Bill discovered, that God doesn\u2019t exist. What I believe does exist is a far fiercer, larger, more complicated, more magnificent God. A God whose nature is disclosed by this universe we live in\u2014heartbreakingly beautiful, relentless, mysterious, sometimes pitiless, sometimes embracing, always bursting with a life that is shadowed but not defeated by death.<\/p>\n

No, that God doesn\u2019t always answer my questions. But given the treacherousness of those questions, their shifting definitions and me-centered thinking, I\u2019m not sure those are the questions I want answered.<\/p>\n

Jim Hinch is a senior editor at GUIDEPOSTS. Contact him at <\/em>jhinch@guideposts.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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