Proteus wrote:
Christian mythology has this mediated by the incarnation and kenosis.  We say God condescended to become a human being, inter alia to redeem us from events like this.  One errs to underestimate the enormity of this condescension.  We say, indeed, that God willingly took on the humiliation of entry into the world of blood and feces, sweat and tears.  One who wants it to be otherwise may turn one's face away.  If you want me to look straight on at the various atrocities enumerated previously on this thread, I say one must look straight on at what we say God did —
for you.  For you.

The right question and right answer don't depend on mythological mediation.
I'm glad to see you write "We say ...", referring to Christians, since there's absolutely no basis for this in the Hebrew Bible, the "Old Testament" version(s) of which is (are) part of Christianity's bible.  There is not a single instance in the Hebrew Bible where God offers a sacrifice to man, or for man's benefit.  All sacrificial offerings mentioned in the Hebrew Bible went in one direction, from man to God.

So, I must agree that the right question is "Where is man?", not "Where is God?", because "God is!", i.e., He is omnipresent.

UriYosef

Our raison d'être:

WHOSOEVER DESTROYS A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE IMPUTES [GUILT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD DESTROYED A COMPLETE WORLD; AND WHOSOEVER PRESERVES A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE ASCRIBES [MERIT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD PRESERVED A COMPLETE WORLD. (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 37a)

The fruits of our effort:

The battle against spiritual terrorism is being won, one soul at a time!!!