(February 7, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(February 4, 2012 at 11:26 pm)MrSkeptic Wrote: Exactly, what kind of sick (so called divine and all loving) being would 'create' such a vicious organism as say the Ebola virus? Which serves no purpose other than to cause extreme pain and suffering - and usually death - to its victim?
I was thinking this very same thought myself this weekend as I struggled to rid myself of a sinus infection (finally gone now and voice returned to normal, thank you) and my 2 year old son suffering with stomach flu.
But in typical doublethink, Christians will give thanks to God for getting over being sick without blaming him for getting sick in the first place.
A new and terrible disease arrives at a small isolated island which is home to a devout religious community. An illness for which there is a one percent expected survival rate. In accordance with the laws of narrative, there are exactly one hundred people living on the island and everyone gets infected. After a prolonged period marked by everyone shitting their insides into buckets, interspersed with prayers for salvation and perhaps just one more roll of toilet paper, ninety-nine people are dead. The lone survivor recovers and raises his ghostly pale face to the heavens. "It's a miracle! Glory be to God!"
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
