I promise this is the last time I will blog about Tim Tebow...in fact, I really didn't want to this time, but truthfully, the Tim Tebow phenomena has turned Sports Talk radio into some of the best radio regarding the issue of faith in God...seriously, it has! Last week Mr. Tebow and the Denver Broncos lost after six straight wins, and Max Kellerman, self-professed atheistic secular Jew, asked the question, "where was God?" Of course everyone giggled a bit, but as Mr. Kellerman went on, he added, "where was was God when over six million people were killed in the Holocaust?"
In a moment of touching, interpersonal candor, his co-caster asked, "is that question the basis of your atheism?" to which Kellerman replied, "absolutely."
I am not surprised. Honestly, Christianity has not recovered from the shock of the holocaust...specifically the question which asks how such a horrific thing could occur in nation which supposedly contained a population that was approx. 85% Christian and approx. 73% attended church regularly.
I hope people were listening. I hope people cared. I hope Christians understand, because the Christianity that will survive and fulfill God's purposes will be one that has a good response to that question. It won't rely on slogons or cliches; it will be heart-felt, confessional, and deeply reasoned responses to the age-old question of the theodicy, which states, "If God is all powerful and all good, then why do bad things happen to good people?"
How would you answer that question?
