Now some people who have a philosophical bent are interested in investigating the “mystery of God” in just this way. There is currently much discussion among philosophers of religion about the so-called hiddenness of God—that is, about the apparent lack of evidence for the existence of God. “Why is God hidden?” they ask. Some critics of Christianity argue that the hiddenness of God is a strong argument that God (in the traditional sense) does not exist at all; many Christians argue that the evidence