The Paradox of Atheism

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If we go down the atheist route, of course, we find this curious contradiction that I've mentioned because any mentioning of the problem of evil, we all react similarly to these atrocities. And the interest in that is we behave as if our judgment was objectively true. That is we expect everybody else to condemn 9-11. Why? Because we believe it is absolutely wrong. We believe in absolute moral values in some areas. Nobody who doesn't except people who are very seriously mentally disturbed.

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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