You have probably heard about the story of the Pope getting nailed by a question from a little Japanese girl (via guardian.co.uk):
Pope Benedict ventured where no pope has gone before on Friday when he answered questions on an Italian television programme – and was stumped by the first. A Japanese girl asked the pope, who, she said, “speaks with God”, why she was having to suffer so much as a result of the earthquake and tsunami that had struck her country.
“I am very frightened because the house where I felt safe really shook a lot and many children my age have died. I cannot go to play in the park. I want to know: why do I have to be so afraid? Why do children have to be so sad?” said seven-year-old Elena.
Benedict admitted: “I also have the same questions: why is it this way? Why do you have to suffer so much while others live in ease?
“And we do not have the answers, but we know that Jesus suffered as you do, an innocent, and that the true God who is revealed in Jesus is by your side.”
SIGH.
When I was 12 years-old I asked my Sunday school teacher if God really was in everything.
“Yes!” she told me.
“Even in the middle of this table?”
“Of course!”
“But why? That’s stupid.” I don’t remember the teacher’s reply, all I know is that on that day, I became an atheist.
Hopefully, that little Japanese girl will become an atheist, too, after getting an equally ridiculous answer.
Pope Benny might as well have said “Just cuz! God’s cruel—I MEAN—cool like that.”
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