Consider the fact that the kindest man who ever lived was condemned by the leaders of his own religion. They handed him over to their enemies and insisted that he be executed in the most awful way. That form of execution was designed to scare all opposition into submission.
Either
(1) this man was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, or
(2) no-one was not able to save him, or
(3) it happened for a reason.
Believing option (1) could lead one to agree with the philosopher Charles Baudelaire who said "If there is a god, he is the devil". After all, if that could happen to any person, I could one day find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Option (2) would imply that if there is a god, he is not very powerful. Who would want to put their trust in someone who would stand helplessly by if they found themselves in trouble?
To people who desperately want to believe in a God who is fair and powerful option (3) is the one they must arrive at by elimination. For those who accept this option the following question immediately arises: For what purpose did the most righteous man who ever lived die in the most painful and degrading way imaginable? How they answer that question will play a most crucial role in their view of the world.
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