(October 22, 2015 at 1:09 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: So Thanksgiving will be here in 30 days. I have food. I have clothes. I have a place to live. I have my health, such as it is. I have my mind, such as it is. Even if I were a believer, give me one good reason why I should thank god for there things.Uh...becuase you wouldn't have any of those good things without god.
Quote:My problem with thanking god for the good things in my life is that there are people who don't have these things and the Christian answer to the children starving in India is not satisfying. I say this because if it's god providing my food then it's also god who's not providing food for the peole who are starving. Think of a father who has ten children but only feeds two of them and expects those two to be thankful even while they watch their siblings starve.If you cared that much about starving people you'd be doing something about it instead of posting on this forum.
Quote:The Christian answer to this is to just be thankful and not worry about the people who god chose to not provide the basic necessities of life. I have a problem with that because I was taught as a Christian that I'm supposed to have love and compassion towards others. Now if it's god who told me to be compassionate, how can this same god turn around and tell me to be indifferent?God didn't tell you to be indifferent. By all means feels free to devote your life to reducing the suffering in others.
Quote:To that the Church tells me that if there were no starving people then we wouldn't have any opportunity to feel compassion. Don't even bother to come in here with that kind of bull shit. You have to have a really twisted mind to be satisfied with that. Either a twisted mind or one that has been programmed not to think to deeply about an all powerful god ruling over a world such as ours.
How twisted is it to use the suffering of people you don't really give a shit about to make an argument against a being that you don't believe exists?
