RE: What would you do if you found out God existed
October 6, 2017 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2017 at 5:14 pm by The Industrial Atheist.)
(October 6, 2017 at 3:50 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:Aren't there less unfair ways to learn compassion? Also if there were no disabled or sick people there wouldn't be any need for those types of compassion?(October 6, 2017 at 3:16 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: He would have a lot of explaining to do. For the op to be true much of the bible would have to be total bullshit.
He'd have to explain for instance, why people who have done no wrong get all kinds of disabilities and diseases.
Original sin doesn't come close. People aren't responsible for the actions of others. Even if they were, punishment should be equal instead of a roll of the dice to decide if you'll have a healthy body and brain or not. Or if you'll be porn poverty stricken, middle class, or rich.
If he could provide good explanations for that, yes I would accept him. I doubt such explanations could possibly exist.
The disabled serve a purpose; that is showing the healthy how lucky they are to be healthy; and how life could've been them.
The death of somebody in a young age; or the sickness of another, made humanity a better breed. Taught us to be compassionate, because we can be in that sick person's shoes. Eventually; you feel sorry for the needy; because you imagine their pain inflicted on you. Thus; societies advance and good prospers.
If God opened the blessings on humans in this life; we'll end up with the Greek Mythology's scenario. Earth would've burnt; international conventions of preventing WMDS and Chemical Weapons would've not been an option:
Quote:Sura 42, The Quran:
( 27 ) And if Allah had extended [excessively] provision for His servants, they would have committed tyranny throughout the earth. But He sends [it] down in an amount which He wills. Indeed He is, of His servants, Acquainted and Seeing.
Assuming we would still have complex relationships there would be plenty of opportunities to show compassion.
We can have human compassion without childhood cancer, leukemia, bipolar disorder, depression etc.
It's not fair to the sufferers, in any case, that they have to be the one to provide the lesson.
