TGC Podcast Can We Trust a God Who Allows Evil?
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May 1, 2026 
Collin Hansen, editor and apologist who teaches at Beeson Divinity School, brings a thoughtful look at the problem of evil. He traces historical and biblical frames from Job and the Holocaust to Jesus. Short, probing segments explore blaming victims, blaming God, and why God’s response is presence and redemption.
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Photograph Captures Ordinary Holocaust Brutality
- Collin Hansen recounts a 1942 photograph of a mother and child in Ivonharad shot by a German soldier, illustrating personal, witnessed brutality.
- He links that image to modern atrocities like the October 7, 2023 attacks and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to show continuity of horrific suffering.
Blaming Victims Is A Defensive Coping Strategy
- One common coping response is blaming victims, assuming suffering results from their wrongdoing so others feel secure.
- Hansen uses Job's friends and early Israeli stigma toward Holocaust survivors to show how victim-blaming reduces collective responsibility.
Holocaust Shifted Western Moral Reference
- Hansen highlights that World War II exposed Christian moral priorities as misaligned, making sexual sins seem small next to industrialized murder.
- He cites historian Alec Ryrie claiming Hitler displaced Jesus as Western culture's visceral moral standard after the Holocaust.
