Are there moments when you wonder not just why things are going badly for you, or why they are very badly for others, but more comprehensively about why there needs to be suffering at all?  I certainly have, and I am now doing a thread of posts that explain some of my reflections through excerpts of the opening sections of my book God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Explain our Most Important Problem – Why We Suffer  (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008).

In my previous post I explained how these issues eventually led me to leave the faith.  Now I continue by reflecting on a subsequent moment, long after I was no longer a believer, when I was particularly floored by

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