As usual, the New York Times has posted another hotly debated article about the existence of God and the problem of suffering on their website. This offering comes from Stanley Fish, who is a law professor at FIU in Miami. The article talks about two recently published books that debate the existence of God and how God can allow suffering to exist in the world.  The same argument has been made for centuries, and continues to be a paramount problem for many unbelievers. I am not posting this to explain or argue for or against the article, but rather to point to the vast popularity of articles such as this and the commentary that always accompanies them. I present this popularity as a very simple and basic rationale for at least contending that a) religion and God continues to be the most talked about and thought about issue in the history of the world and b) that this fact alone leads one to consider why this is so. If God does not exist, and the issue of his existence is meaningless, then why does this one topic continue to pervade the modern discourse year after year? I offer a simple explanation -Romans 1:20 - For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature,have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.Why is the issue of God so important within popular media and culture? Because the attributes of God are all around us, within nature, and we desire to know these questions because God has placed them within our hearts. This is why religion continues to dominate the mind of America and the world.