(November 25, 2015 at 10:47 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Cancer is either entirely found in nature, or it came about through the free will of people themselves - polluting the air, adding chemicals to our foods, not taking care of our planet, etc.
Either way, I don't see it as God working like a wizard with a magic wand, inflicting people with it for some kind of purpose. I see it as Him allowing the natural course of things to happen, just as He did so when we evolved. And I explained in my other post why I do not believe this makes him an evil being.
Yes, of course you don't hold him to blame. But according to your creation story, he made it. Making something that awful, and then letting nature takes its course, is at very best amoral, and not good.
You're welcome to your own opinion. I heartily disagree. If I created a new supervirus and released it into the wider world knowing that people were going to die, would you excuse my behavior by saying that I'm just letting nature take its course? Of course you wouldn't. You'd excoriate me for the evil action I had taken knowing that it would kill people ... and you'd be right.
You just carve out a little "but not God" exception and go on about your day.