(December 12, 2013 at 6:39 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Let's look at it logically.
Suffering in others doesn't give one the ability to empathize. Psychopaths are unable to empathize and even when they're harming people, they cannot empathize. You can have the entire world starving and psychopaths will not be able to be "better people". You do not become a better person by feeling bad for someone and making a decision to help them, you were able to empathize and you were a better person, that's why you decided to help them.
Logically, just because you can empathize does not make you a good person. It makes you not be a sociopath.
Quote:Anyway, if god is omnipotent, he can use less cruel tools and methods to teach us such a simple lesson. Instead, he uses the weakest of the weak to help the privileged do some soul searching? Really? What an awesome god you have there.
If it was so simple it would have been taken care of, don't you think?
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
