(July 25, 2016 at 10:15 am)Rhythm Wrote: Is asking him for war, hunger, disease, and atheism (redundant, obviously, in your opinion) to go away -not- asking him for what he wants for us?
Why would you assume the God wants us to have life easy? All of those things while yes they do suck and bring hardship and even death on a massive scale, long term have indeed benefited man.
think about it a moment.. We are essentially on top of the food chain, and those 'terrible' things you mentioned are what keeps humanity in check and killing this planet. Those are the checks to our banance, the ying to our yang, without them humanity would sweep across this planet like a virus rendering it uninhabitable with in just a few hundred years.
In addition to keeping humanity at bay those 'terrible' things have also spawned, inspired refined modern life.
Where you only see the bad, in war and hunger I see a space program, air lines, Genetically enhanced foods, opportunity for us to serve and feed the hungry and homeless, I see atheism keeping religion from taking us into another dark age, in that it provides a check for the self righteous. I can see a potential balance in all things... If I can see this balance and the 'good' that can come from your bad, then why wouldn't God be able to see the same? If there is indeed a 'greater good' that comes from a generation's suffering the benefits the whole of Humanity, then why would God want to take that what you call suffering away?
