Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury 'doubts' presence of God
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the terror attacks in Paris made him "doubt" the presence of God.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby told the BBC's Songs Of Praise the killings had put a "chink in his armour".
He said his reaction to the attacks had been "first shock and horror and then a profound sadness", heightened because he and his wife once lived in Paris.
The gun and suicide bomb attacks on 13 November, carried out by so-called Islamic State, left 130 people dead.
The archbishop said: "Saturday morning, I was out and as I was walking, I was praying and saying: 'God, why - why is this happening? Where are you in all this?'"
"He said 'in the middle of it' and also in answer from Psalm 56 - 'he stores up our tears in a bottle, none of our sufferings are lost,'" he added.
The archbishop said his shock had been made worse because he and his wife had lived in Paris for five years.
"It was one of the happiest places we have lived and to think of a place of such celebration of life …More
What on earth kind of faith does this man have? How is the evil done in the Paris shootings any different from all the other evil that goes on continually in this world? What does it have to do with the existence of God? What about the legalised slaughter of innocent defenceless babies taking place on a mass scale in his own country??? What is he doing to put an end to that abomination? This man is worldly and trying to please the fickle crowd; he does not have faith in God as revealed to us through Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church.