Where was God?
From a Briefing reader:
I was watching the ABC news the other night, and saw a segment on Pope Benedict's visit to Auschwitz, Germany. I was very disappointed to hear Pope Benedict query God's silence while victims were tortured and massive numbers of people were killed in Auschwitz and other German death camps in WWII.
The one bit that made it to air, that thousands of Australians would have watched, showed the Pope askig a rhetorical question: “Where was God in those days?” The Pope should have followed that up with words from the Bible, clearly stating that God has never left us or ignored our pain and that we will all face judgement.
Good point, although it's worth remembering the editing that goes on with these things. There's every possibility Pope Benedict provided an answer to his own question, and the ABC edited it out. “Where was God in those days?” coming from the Pope makes a fantastic sound bite for the secular media.
I guess we'll never know if it was edited, but as our reader points out, we do always know where God is.