Does prayer work?
Christopher Hitchens â–ª Does Prayer Work? [2008] - YouTube
Christopher Hitchens or, "Hitch", as people who knew him called him and from both sides of the Atlantic, poses a very curious observation in this video. Though terribly sunburned, and I've been there myself, he none the less stands out for other reasons as well.
Now departed due to complications from his fight with cancer in 2011, Christopher Hitchens leaves a legacy as one of the most articulate atheists of our time. With not a care in the world as to whom he offended in the process.
At the end of this short piece he makes a very interesting observation. And while ministers and others could come up with all sorts of answers I thought to pose the question here after people might choose to watch Hitch.
When God is omnipresent and omniscient and most importantly we're told, omnibenevolent, why did the sun shine above Auschwitz in WW2 Nazi Germany? Why did the skies remain blue and clear above Dackow in Poland?
Why was the morning like every other morning in NYC on September 11, 2001 while 19 terrorists were boarding planes that would alter the present and the future of America and make history in the name of Muslim fanatic terrorism?
Why didn't God stop the evil that carried on before his eternally present all knowing eye?
I look forward to heart felt sincere replies. This is not a thread inviting flaming, goading, personal attacks, nor is it intended to insult anyone's faith. Rather, it is posted to pose the question an atheist gave voice to and answered with; because God isn't real! In Hitchens manner of speaking.
But what do we Christians believe?
(*as a side note* Ironically, Hitchens brother was/is a Theist. I find that surprising given then that all he condemned about God, faith, and religion and the religious, first spoke in rebuttal to the beliefs of his own blood.)
Christopher Hitchens â–ª Does Prayer Work? [2008] - YouTube
Christopher Hitchens or, "Hitch", as people who knew him called him and from both sides of the Atlantic, poses a very curious observation in this video. Though terribly sunburned, and I've been there myself, he none the less stands out for other reasons as well.
Now departed due to complications from his fight with cancer in 2011, Christopher Hitchens leaves a legacy as one of the most articulate atheists of our time. With not a care in the world as to whom he offended in the process.
At the end of this short piece he makes a very interesting observation. And while ministers and others could come up with all sorts of answers I thought to pose the question here after people might choose to watch Hitch.
When God is omnipresent and omniscient and most importantly we're told, omnibenevolent, why did the sun shine above Auschwitz in WW2 Nazi Germany? Why did the skies remain blue and clear above Dackow in Poland?
Why was the morning like every other morning in NYC on September 11, 2001 while 19 terrorists were boarding planes that would alter the present and the future of America and make history in the name of Muslim fanatic terrorism?
Why didn't God stop the evil that carried on before his eternally present all knowing eye?
So then the question is, as posted by Hitchens; where was God? Why did the skies over Nazi Germany, Poland, and elsewhere, darken with God's wrath as he interceded in the evil that men were doing?
I look forward to heart felt sincere replies. This is not a thread inviting flaming, goading, personal attacks, nor is it intended to insult anyone's faith. Rather, it is posted to pose the question an atheist gave voice to and answered with; because God isn't real! In Hitchens manner of speaking.
But what do we Christians believe?
(*as a side note* Ironically, Hitchens brother was/is a Theist. I find that surprising given then that all he condemned about God, faith, and religion and the religious, first spoke in rebuttal to the beliefs of his own blood.)
