(April 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm)nogodchick Wrote: Can anyone tell me why, if there is a God, he created the world in the first place. It would be a bit self-indulgent of him, surely. Wouldn't he have to be some sort of a power crazed Voyeur to do any of this in the first place? Why would a just and loving God create a world and then watch its creatures suffering for millennium after millennium.
What the hell was God thinking? I have yet to hear a convincing argument advanced about this. Perhaps non atheists could take a shot at answering this question
I'm glad to see that you, like myself, are interested in why the world was created. I know it was because God wanted to, but I don't know his specific reasons. He could have also created billions of other universes with totally different properties than ours for different reasons, which boggles my mind to think about. The atheist option to God creating this world is that everything is just here for no purpose - it just is. Either everything always was or it just popped into existence from whatever was here before everything was. I don't think that because God created the world that all of our problems can be blamed on God. Starving children are usually caused by things like oppressive governments or anarchy. In places where people are miserable, the misery is usually caused by other people. I'd say that people in free countries are less miserable that those in which tyranny prevails. Do you really think that this world is just a place where creatures suffer for millennium after millennium? I think it's a lot more than that.
