RE: Dear Christians
March 21, 2014 at 12:24 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2014 at 12:26 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(March 20, 2014 at 2:27 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: it's hard to understand how the christian god of the holy bib-le says children are innocent and not accountable. I mean, why doesn't he save them from all the terrible things? They haven't done any sinning..they are HIS children. They are without fault. If you think about the christian god.. you realize christians are retarded. How is it possible to hurt children that way?... but again, it's retarded. He doesn't save the children, he doesn't heal the sick..HE isn't anything. He is an idea.. a really shitty one.
If there is a deity why should it make everything nice for you? I think the story of Job illustrates this point very nicely. When Job lost his family and servants the intent was to see how he would react. Maybe those people were simply sophisticated androids and expendable. So although Job thought that he lost fellow humans he was in reality the only human (aka the person with a "soul") in the story. The intent was always to see what he would do when he experienced some major disasters. The other characters were just mirages.
Now consider how someone might react when they experience major disasters involving their loved ones. Do they go off the deep end or do they hold it together? The Bible contains a number of stories that ask that question. But is the question dependent upon the existence of a deity? I don't think so.
As humans we will all experience tragedies. Some will make us angry and vengeful. Some might drive us into severe episodes of depression. We have the luxury of learning from other peoples' experiences. Children will suffer and die horrible deaths. It's the nature of life. So what can the average bystander do to alleviate that? Some people got off their butts and invented medicines and medical procedures to cure the things that cold be cured. Others became part of the system to apprehend and punish wrongdoers who commit deliberate harmful acts.
The bottom line is that we are all "gods" who have the power to contribute to make the world a better place. A person has to be stupid to think that an imaginary invisible celestial deity plays any part in human affairs.