WHY WORSHIP GOD?
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —If your religious correspondent can “ wonder and worship ” at natural grandeur will he please inform us what he does when he visits a hospital and sees there the suffering of little victims who have been struck down by an awful disease which must—if the religious version is true —be equally the creation of the God whom we are asked to worship ? The clearest proof that there is no God to worship is that religious believers can, by implication, accuse Him of creating and allowing, say, infantile paralysis, and not be struck dead on the spot. It was a Freethinker who said that he could have improved on the alleged creation of God by “ making good health catching.” The wonder and worship can only be maintained by closing one’s, eyes to unmerited suffering, diseases, and awful natural disasters.—l am, etc.. Advance. May 1.
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Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 14
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149WHY WORSHIP GOD? Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 14
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