I remember reading an article about an Australian missionary in India. He was driving his car with his 3 young sons (his wife was at home in India with their daughter) when his car was blocked by Hindu militants. They burnt his car slowly and stopped the missionary and his sons from leaving the car. He and his 3 sons died a slow and horrible death, no doubt screaming to God in pain and begging his divine intervention. God did bugger all.
Jeffonthenet mentioned that suffering helped him to be humble and less selfish. Jeffonthenet is obviously talking about a different from of suffering. The missionary and his three sons died in pain and suffering and that sort of suffering is not the sort you can gain anything from. Anybody who could have saved the missionary and his three sons and fails to do so cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered loving or merciful or kind. He's evil. Even Hitler would have saved them (after all, they were Caucasian LOL). But God did nothing.
Sir David Attenborough said on the BBC that he could not accept the existence of a benign God because nature tells us such a God can't possibly exist. He gave the example of a worm that could only live in the eye of a human child. The worm would burrow into the eye and eat up the eye slowly and painfully rendering the child irreversibly blind. Many African children are afflicted with this worm.
Jeffonthenet mentioned that suffering helped him to be humble and less selfish. Jeffonthenet is obviously talking about a different from of suffering. The missionary and his three sons died in pain and suffering and that sort of suffering is not the sort you can gain anything from. Anybody who could have saved the missionary and his three sons and fails to do so cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered loving or merciful or kind. He's evil. Even Hitler would have saved them (after all, they were Caucasian LOL). But God did nothing.
Sir David Attenborough said on the BBC that he could not accept the existence of a benign God because nature tells us such a God can't possibly exist. He gave the example of a worm that could only live in the eye of a human child. The worm would burrow into the eye and eat up the eye slowly and painfully rendering the child irreversibly blind. Many African children are afflicted with this worm.
