"I come from a country where there's been violence in the name of religion," he says. "If my faith cannot meet objections, it's not worth believing in anyway." He has stood in Auschwitz many times and knows people who have been injured by terrorist bombs.
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?