Comparing Theism with Flat-Earthism

[The Grand Nudger]

Gods just practicing on all our furry little friends. Like serial killers with cats and dogs or what have you. Or maybe it's a warning shot for too much homosexing? The point is that even though christians don't believe that the earth has volition - they believe that the god who is in charge of and responsible for everything on the earth does - and that makes him a moral agent and the destruction of any life, not just human life, and in fact the destruction of the environment itself..is a situation of moral import.

Christians believe that the only state of affairs which could turn a hurricane into a moral evil, is the true state of affairs in this world, righteously decided by the very god who wields those same forces. It's a ridiculous idea, sure...but when has that ever stopped the superstitious?

I noticed in an earlier reply that there was the suggestion that people are to blame, for putting their houses too close to water, for the misery of flooded houses. Well - that's not quite right either. For all of human history and prehistory we've lived in a small strip on the coasts. That's not for no reason - it's down the necessities of being human, a state which none of us chose - nor did we choose the general state of human beings which makes it inevitable. Just like eating and breathing out of the same whole. Choking and drowning are, thus, inflicted miseries. We have no choice but to do the thing that kills us, and those things are part of the design or plan, and subject to the control of the designer or planner...and all of it..absolutely all of it, the whole chain of moral responsibility - terminates with the author of each and every one of these states of affairs. None of us could be more than part time collaborators with the creator of pain - the creator of misery - the ultimate source of all harm.