Ultimately, a broad coalition extending beyond the ranks of Christians and Jews supported the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which passed Congress unanimously in 1998. Nor would any of human race merit his favour, but a very few, the philosophical Theists, who entertain, or rather indeed endeavour to entertain, suitable notions of his Divine perfections: as the only persons entitled to his compassion and indulgence would be the philosophical Sceptics, a sect almost equally rare, who, from a natural diffidence of their own capacity, suspend, or endeavour to suspend, all judgment with regard to such sublime and such extraordinary subjects.

But the United Nations, in a series of reports, has warned with mounting urgency that the battle lines in Syria are being drawn along sectarian - that is, religious - lines. Because the ruling Assad family is Alawi. Although there have been minor changes in the rank-order of the most religious and the least religious states between 2008 and 2013, the broad pattern has remained similar year after year. Therefore God must have a good reason or set of reasons for not preventing/eliminating evil.

Comprehensive professional research in 2006 by Tearfund found that two thirds (66% - 32.2 million people) in the UK have no connection with any religion or church 3, a figure which meshes perfectly with another poll in the same year that saw 63% say they are not religious 6. God is within, whether you are in or out of the body." ( Betty Bethards ) "When we enter the spirit realm, we are given glimpses of things we expected to see in order to bring us comfort. There are new alliances emerging now that are joining social justice with environmental justice.