Gods plan is flawed as is the concept of god itself!

[Thor]

Lmao Thor! It is so true though. When I was a fundie everything was part of gods plan. If your child was born with a birth defect it happened because god wanted to glorify himself through that "special" child and teach you some lesson in life.

I've had many arguments with these brainwashed nabobs. I point out the horrific birth defects that afflict people as evidence that their deity (an all-loving, all-powerful, omniscient being) could not exist. They respond that these people are born that way because of "God's plan". I ask how could having a child born with some terrible birth defect be in some deity's "plan"? Typically, they'll tell me some heartwarming story of how they know someone who has a child with Down's Syndrome (or some such affliction) and that the family has learned many lessons as a result of living with this child. They then speculate that "perhaps that was God's plan". I'll then reply how horrible it is for this deity to afflict someone with a terrible malady in order to "teach someone a lesson". This is when they pull out the tripe about how we can't necessarily understand "God's" purpose all the time, but it will become clear eventually.

Pardon me while I vomit.

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Because god did it is an easy answer to any question that involves no research or understanding.

Religion leads to stagnation, it is the death enquiry the end of reason and as such is to be despised.

Can you imagine how far we would have advanced if everyone accepted the explanation that "God did it"?

What caused the smallpox epidemic?

God did it!

Why did the volcano erupt?

God did it!

Why did lightning strike my metal weathervane?

God did it!

Why did the storm hit?

God did it!

If we just accepted this lame explanation we wouldn't have antibiotics, weather forecasting or electricity.