(March 4, 2013 at 4:20 pm)John V Wrote: [quote='xXUKAtheistForTheTruthXx' pid='409344' Lets see a list of things bad that god hasn't removed:How about a list of good things god has given us? (Hypothetically from your POV of course.)
Illness
HIV/AIDS
Nazis
KKK
Taliban
Al-Qeada
Sex offenders (esp the religious ones)
Crime
War
Death
Murder
Heart attacks
Cancer
Slavery (like you said)
Attention-whore religious extremists
MANY other things
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Well, there's:
Critical thinking
Natural Empathy
Medicine developed from the study of evolution
Moderate personalities that don't try to jam ideologies down people's throats (one way or the other)
Mercy
Love
Humility
Generosity
Humour
Justice
Fairness
There's a few things that, if he exists, he hopefully gave us. Or allowed us to discover, or placed here for us to discover, or surrepticiously implanted in our brains, or revealed to one or two individuals.
I don't know, there seems to be a lot of debate as to how exactly he supposedly gave us this stuff.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
