(August 7, 2015 at 8:59 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 7:07 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Some Christians will say to punish people.
But that is not what Catholicism teaches, and I personally think it's simply God letting nature take its coarse. That includes diseases, accidents, disorders, etc. I don't believe God functions as a micromanager.
That means that god is evil. If he has the power to stop such things, without risk to himself, and chooses not to do so, he is responsible for it. (Not to mention the fact that if he created the world in the first place, he is totally responsible for everything that naturally occurs as a result of his creation.) You worship a cruel, heartless bastard.
You must certainly understand the Christian belief that we live in a fallen world as a direct result of the original sin.
What's more important to point out is that you call God evil. On what basis? Your own? You cannot call anything evil without invoking a personal moral authority of which you say does not exist.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.