Believers are wiser than they seem. At a glance, this idea, “everything happens for a reason,” seems the most absurd, sometimes offensive, wishful thinking. The Holocaust happened for a reason?! Tell me, what could God have possibly had in mind…
Much liturgical prayer is about praising God and extolling His greatness. This tends to fill atheists with scorn: If God is so great, why does He need humans to remind Him of the fact all the time? But as an…