RE: Wow, the real reason why bad things happen.
January 6, 2013 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2013 at 12:41 pm by RichardP.)
(January 4, 2013 at 12:12 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(December 18, 2012 at 2:31 pm)ronedee Wrote: Whynot.... get off your phat asses, roll-up your sleeves and help all those people you talk about? One anti in another thread gave all his "xmas budget money" [one] year to the homeless to "feel good"! There's a model for ya! You could all use a little "feel good" cheer around here!
We do help, sanctimony noted, but we're only human. No matter how many diseases we can prevent or cure, how many people we feed and clothe, there are always more. Only someone who is omnipotent could possibly deserve blame for there being needless death and suffering in the world. You say there is someone like that, but you want us to ignore your claim unless we're looking to buy in. How about you get off your 'phat ass' and help people, since you apparently don't think it's possible to do that and still post on the internet.
I have to agree. The only logical explanation would be that if there is a God then that God does not intercede on any level.
Some Christian pastor might tell a cute story about he and his wife were 'led' to shop at a quaint little country store where they found their favorite bread on sale and roll of cash on the floor -- that they used to pay for the groceries. But on the other hand you have whole groups of Christians praying in Palestinian hospitals for their children who are suffering and dying. But instead of healing the sick children God allows the Israeli military to fly over and bomb the hospital killing everybody inside.
A cynic would argue that it is easy for a prosperous Christian living in a wealthy nation to attribute their success to God, but that life is not so easy in other countries. And what people are really attributing to God could be attributed to the better economic system of the more prosperous nation.
