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Where is God?

With all the press God has been getting lately in The Spokesman-Review (Pastor John Weston, Russell Wilson, Jim Berg), regarding his presumed interest in professional football, maybe we should be asking some less trivial questions.

Where does God stand on the global AIDS epidemic or the Ebola disaster in West Africa? How about the horrific atrocities committed by ISIS and Boko Haram, in his name no less? What about the plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of wars across the Middle East and Africa? How about famine, poverty, earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change and mass species extinctions? These kinds of serious questions are endless.

The most coherent, rational and evidence-based explanation for this global house of horrors is that God is nowhere to be found. Not on Earth. Not in Heaven.

Historically, religious and sectarian disagreements have been at the core of most persistent violence. Maybe God is amused by this. Or maybe he is just too involved in sports to find time to make a difference.

Tim Beamer

Cheney

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