(June 3, 2016 at 11:51 am)Lek Wrote:(June 2, 2016 at 9:37 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: He decides who gets raped, he decides who gets murdered, he decides who dies from a horrible disease.
As true Christians, it is about time you started thanking God for it all.
Everything is done in His name.
Not true at all. If I kill someone it's because I decided to do it, not God. You're supposition is wrong. It is true, though, that God allows it to happen and doesn't stop it.
Sorry, Lek, but God bears a good deal more responsibility for things than just allowing them. If God is omnipotent and creative, then God created the decisions made by human beings (check of statement: If there is anything that happens without God's having created it, then God is not omnipotent). It isn't as if God just stands idly by and lets 14 years old Susan be raped, tortured and killed - God created rapists, torturers, killers, and the desires and decisions to rape, torture and kill. God, in effect, is ultimately responsible for every act of evil that has ever occurred, both moral and natural (if you like, I'll be delighted to point out why free will cannot exist in the context of an all-powerful God, but that's not immediately germane).
You might want to look up the Parable Of The Insane Dog Breeder. It's a quick read and explains the ultimate paucity of Christian morality as pertains to moral evil.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
