Far more nicely put than your first reply .

I don't think that admitting that you ask "why" sometimes should be seen as a weakness in your Christian faith, but how you reply to that question may.

To others who are searching, who have seen horrendous things in their lives and ask "why" of God, but also want and need the reassurance that God is still there.........well those are the people put off by a flippant reply that says questioning God is just an absurd, ego driven request.

You see a reply like that gives the impression that your relationship with God needs to be a strict, unquestioning and ever grateful one. That prayers, no matter what, need and have to be of only the thankful, praise God type.

There are those of us, I would say most of us, that have seen awful things in our lives, either personally or by watching the evening news. We need to know that we can go to God in prayer and ask WHY??? I just wanted to know if and how others did that, not a lecture on being so ego driven to ask should an absurd question.

Would have admitting that you sometimes have and do ask "why" been so hard in the beginning?