(October 10, 2013 at 10:21 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Doctor: You should stop smoking.
Patient: Why?
Doctor: Because it will give you cancer.
Patient: But I like smoking.
Doctor: It's a free country.
(10 years later)
Doctor: You have cancer.
Patient: Why couldn't you make me stop?
Doctor: Because, its a free country.
It's more like...
4 year-old: Why did you allow that man to rape and kill me?
God: I have to allow free will.
4 year-old: Why didn't you create people so they didn't want to do such things?
God: I did, but Adam and Even ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge and brought sin into the world.
4 year-old: Well, why didn't you stop them from eating the the fruit, which you knew would inevitably lead to me being raped in the anus with a splintery broom handle and having my throat slit?
God: 'Cause I'm a dick like that.
Spin it however you wish, Chad, you can't dance around the fact that your god willingly allows evil things to happen in this world.
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
