Periodically, it seems, society gets a new rash of atheists. I think rash may be a good metaphor. Like many irritants, though, it may serve a useful purpose in that it gets us off our posteriors and on our feet.All religions indeed cannot be true, but that hardly forecloses the question: Why and how have religions become to universal in human society? It is an important question, and one not so easily dismissed. And how could a God who is good create a world with so much evil? How can one look to the Bible for guidance when it
