(April 21, 2011 at 4:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Hi Cinjin
God never sits deciding who gets bad stuff and who gets good stuff. Such stuff is the result of this cosmic order we inhabit. God initiated the positivity. Not God is the negativity. As an active God, God sits on his throne running everything.
God doesn't stop the suffering (he allows it, he ordered it (this natural order)), but God isn't choosing to cause suffering.
How very Deistic of you. With some exception of course.
At any rate, an atheist might debate that if he runs everything, and he allows all things, such as face tumors and tsunamis, that he by proxy causes suffering for some unknowable plan. But I'll offer a truce since that is not my argument to bear.
