My ex-pastor posted this yesterday on Facebook:
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And I agree to the extent that yes, it is us humans who most definitely have to deal with this problem, and if I understood everyone right by glancing through the comments, I think that we all agree. Especially since the problems won't go away by asking your imaginary friend..
But this makes me wonder again about the programming skills of this particular god. If I remember my bullshit correctly, we're all made in its image, so shouldn't every single one of us desire to eradicate injustice of any kind? Why don't we? And for the love of Odin, don't say free will, because if we indeed would be carbon copies of god, it means that we reflect his nature and god itself would be able of such atrocities.
Why on Earth should the god not be responsible for its creation, I wonder? It seems rather cruel to me if it actually made this whole mess, but then took a look at it and decided that the world was to screwed up and it couldn't be bothered to clean up after itself afterwards. Instead it supposedly gave us ambiguous messages at best through outdated writings; if you wish just hard enough or pray enough times, you just might get rid of your misery. Just might. Well, psychosomatic healing and wishful thinking does not help if you're hungry or make that tumor the size of Greenland on your face shrink and disappear.
Does anyone else find it odd that it always seems to be the same kind of people targeted when it comes to misery? For instance: Do you live in Africa? Check. Are you a girl? Check. Do you have dark skin? Check. Well, in that case, congratulations, you're fucked! God seems like the worst racist bully there ever was. Sure, everyone on this planet will face misery in one way or another, but why does it seems to be that always a certain group of people get the worst, all the time?
No, poverty and famine is something we all should work to get rid of by stopping to be so greedy and selfish, it is definitely a thing humanity have brought upon itself. But when it comes to the injustice of having e.g. a strange medical condition, all I can say that random mutations unfortunately happens and all we can do is try and provide the people with decent care.
I take great comfort in the thought that the world isn't fair. Because if it was, we would deserve all the bad things that happen to us. And if there's a thought that someone deserves a facial tumor, that they had it coming or if you believe enough it'll go away, than that would indeed be the most loathsome being in the whole universe.
/rant
And I agree to the extent that yes, it is us humans who most definitely have to deal with this problem, and if I understood everyone right by glancing through the comments, I think that we all agree. Especially since the problems won't go away by asking your imaginary friend..
But this makes me wonder again about the programming skills of this particular god. If I remember my bullshit correctly, we're all made in its image, so shouldn't every single one of us desire to eradicate injustice of any kind? Why don't we? And for the love of Odin, don't say free will, because if we indeed would be carbon copies of god, it means that we reflect his nature and god itself would be able of such atrocities.
Why on Earth should the god not be responsible for its creation, I wonder? It seems rather cruel to me if it actually made this whole mess, but then took a look at it and decided that the world was to screwed up and it couldn't be bothered to clean up after itself afterwards. Instead it supposedly gave us ambiguous messages at best through outdated writings; if you wish just hard enough or pray enough times, you just might get rid of your misery. Just might. Well, psychosomatic healing and wishful thinking does not help if you're hungry or make that tumor the size of Greenland on your face shrink and disappear.
Does anyone else find it odd that it always seems to be the same kind of people targeted when it comes to misery? For instance: Do you live in Africa? Check. Are you a girl? Check. Do you have dark skin? Check. Well, in that case, congratulations, you're fucked! God seems like the worst racist bully there ever was. Sure, everyone on this planet will face misery in one way or another, but why does it seems to be that always a certain group of people get the worst, all the time?
No, poverty and famine is something we all should work to get rid of by stopping to be so greedy and selfish, it is definitely a thing humanity have brought upon itself. But when it comes to the injustice of having e.g. a strange medical condition, all I can say that random mutations unfortunately happens and all we can do is try and provide the people with decent care.
I take great comfort in the thought that the world isn't fair. Because if it was, we would deserve all the bad things that happen to us. And if there's a thought that someone deserves a facial tumor, that they had it coming or if you believe enough it'll go away, than that would indeed be the most loathsome being in the whole universe.
/rant
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
