Axes started grinding even before the dust had settled on September 11th 2001. On the left the axe was named Ask Yourselves etc; on the right it was named Missile Defence: neither cause was much advanced by trotting them out at that time. More importantly it was spectacularly poor taste. The Saudi ambassador wrote to the Times to say so and earned applause at least from this corner. (Later the same guy wrote a poem in praise of a suicide bomber. Being sensible about one thing never implied sense about anything else.)
Martin Kettle evidently never read that letter. (See here, here and points between for Norm's thoughtful responses, to which I can only say they show a level of sensitivity to one's theological opposites that Martin Kettle or Richard Dawkins are unlikely ever to achieve.) For that matter he has never read, or not taken any notice of, Ecclesiastes chapter 3, perhaps the most sublime meditation on these matters ever written. At any rate in over two thousand years no-one's come up with better:
There is a time to debate the theology of all this - the problem is called theodicy, i.e. the existence of evil and suffering in a world created and ruled by God - but it isn't now. Tell you what, cancel that Guardian sub, and go here.