It’s easy to ask the question, hard to follow through to the logical conclusion. From the BBC:
Pope Benedict XVI has made a historic visit to the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau at the end of his four-day tour of Poland. […]
It was particularly difficult for a Christian – a German pope – to speak from such a place of horror, he said.
“In a place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence – a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?” he said in a speech in Italian.
If Benedict’s conception of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent deity is compatible with such horrors, then he’s delusional. Mind you, he’s in distinguished company. Pretzel logicians all. They’d rather hang on to their world of make-believe instead of simply admitting the truth. Human beings did these horrible things to other human beings, and it’s up to us human beings to prevent such atrocities from happening in the future. No supernatural agent is going to save us from ourselves: we have to grow up, take responsibility, and sort it out on our own.