RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 22, 2013 at 11:02 am
(October 22, 2013 at 10:51 am)Esquilax Wrote: In the former case... there's simply no reason to inflict this kind of pain from birth. There's no purpose it could serve, no good it can accomplish, and so by the bounds of your theology there's no reason why your god should design such a thing into the world to begin with... and yet, there it is.
Claiming that God allows human suffering here on earth only to be free of it in Heaven is like that joke about the guy who likes to hit himself in the head with a hammer, because it feels so good when he stops. The point being in both scenarios is that there is absolutely no point in causing needless pain & suffering in life, regardless of whatever kind of paradise may await after death.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
