Drich Wrote:In short there are no "innocent people." All are guilty of sin. We live in a world ruled by sin therefore we are subject to the consequences of sin.
This is just nonsense your religion sells, because if there is no disease, no one wants the cure.
Drich Wrote:So why does God allow this to happen? Because control of this world has been given to man. It is our responsibility to mange or control all aspects of what we have been given. If you do not like how things go then it is on you and your fellow man to effect change.
So god allows little children to be raped because of their ancestors wrongdoing? You keep arguing against the Epicurean quote, but every time you describe a quality of your god, you just keep reinforcing it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell