(October 22, 2014 at 7:29 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 7:21 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: You do know that 25,000 people die of starvation every day, right? Most of them children.
Where exactly is this loving force that you claim exists?
What you are describing is an evil, hateful force, that gives you a loving family, and causes 10,000 times you to starve to death every day.
He has given them a spirit and love and their hope will be meant in a better life to come.
The system is designed to be a natural world. He doesn't go out of his way to make kids starve. He doesn't go out of his way to create earthquakes or create diseases. These are part of the natural evolution of the world.
I think their is wisdom in creating a natural universe. I just see the one who created it from the start had love in mind.
That sounds almost Catholic in nature, "suffering is good".
I don't know about the tenets of Islam and if suffering is one of them but it always strikes me as a weak justification.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"