The Role of Security in Religion and Morality

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Only 7% of terminally ill patients in Boston were consistent atheists. Even among those who said religion and spirituality wasn't important, two thirds indicated that they were wrestling with spiritual questions. The World Values Survey is a representative national survey of beliefs and values in 76 nations. It's based on measures of social security within their cultures.

For the religious believer and the atheist alike, the problem of evil and suffering is troubling. If there is a God, why does he allow so much evil? And if there isn’t a God, how can we say that anything is evil?

In this Forum event from 2014 at Harvard Medical School, Oxford mathematician John Lennox addresses one of the most challenging human questions: where is God in suffering?

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