Probably the strongest objection to Christianity is the problem of suffering. It is a question that has emotional weight, and intellectually challenging, and it is difficult to find a response to this objection that can meet both the emotional and intellectual demands.
I guess to provide some context to this. This is not a problem that is unique to Christianity. Every worldview must answer this question – the atheist, the Buddhist, the Hindu all need to provide responses to the problem of suffering. So, to dismiss Christianity because of this issue is not really looking at the full picture, because you would also need to show that an alternative worldview would have a better answer to this problem. And this is indeed a problem.
Hindu’s answer to suffering is karma – that this suffering is brought upon ourselves by something we have done, whether in this life or an earlier one. At first this seems to be a satisfactory solution, there seems to be a sense of poetic justice about it. In many ways, this is how ...
