Harold and Alberta didn’t hold with religion at all and the more Eustace heard about it, the more he thought his parents had the right of it – he was having a really hard time squaring how an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God could allow Hitler and over a million dead Jews in Occupied Europe, if the papers were to be believed – and once Aslan entered the mix, it was even more muddled because the Lion was also supposed to be all the things God was but then had let the Witch kill Caspian’s wife and kidnap and torture Rilian and why had the Lion needed him and Pole to go through all that misery and almost get eaten when he could have just done the job himself.
Since Professor Kirke was supposed to be an expert on God, Eustace had thought he would have all the answers but, instead, the Professor had agreed with him.
“Eustace, I may be a very good theologian but I a very poor theist and, if you cannot reconcile the problem of evil with an all benevolent, omnipotent god, God, or gods, perhaps consider that the fault lies with the deity and not your own understanding.”
The Problem of Evil -- Narnia; Eustace Scrubb
Harold and Alberta didn’t hold with religion at all and the more Eustace heard about it, the more he thought his parents had the right of it – he was having a really hard time squaring how an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God could allow Hitler and over a million dead Jews in Occupied Europe, if the papers were to be believed – and once Aslan entered the mix, it was even more muddled because the Lion was also supposed to be all the things God was but then had let the Witch kill Caspian’s wife and kidnap and torture Rilian and why had the Lion needed him and Pole to go through all that misery and almost get eaten when he could have just done the job himself.
Since Professor Kirke was supposed to be an expert on God, Eustace had thought he would have all the answers but, instead, the Professor had agreed with him.
“Eustace, I may be a very good theologian but I a very poor theist and, if you cannot reconcile the problem of evil with an all benevolent, omnipotent god, God, or gods, perhaps consider that the fault lies with the deity and not your own understanding.”