RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2014 at 7:51 pm by Mystic.)
(October 22, 2014 at 7:35 pm)Chad32 Wrote: He doesn't seem to go out of his way to do anything, since your life could be good or bad regardless of which god you believe in. Outside of believers causing you problems for believing in the "wrong" god, or not believing at all.
I think to be honest, that with loved of the divine, life is good no matter what. As long as we have God, then all that we don't have it is nothing compared to that.
(October 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 7:29 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: 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.
How do you explain 'spirit', 'love' and a 'better life to come' to a six months old child whose only sensation, whose only awareness is the gnawing, twisting pain in her belly because she hasn't fed in three days? How do you explain these things to the child who watches his parents and siblings slowly waste away to nothing from the ravages of malnutrition that proceeds quickly to starvation?
Perhaps God doesn't go out of his way to starve little kids or to bury them under mudslides or to leave them dead of AIDS or scurvy or - even worse - made orphans to these same diseases. But if there is a God, the evidence shows that he does precious little to prevent it.
It's a funny kind of love that provides all the horrors of wrecked villages, starvation, disease, blindness, pain, thirst, etc ad nauseum and doesn't seem to care to lift a divine finger to ameliorate a single one of these conditions.
The hardest thing I've ever done in my life was when I was a volunteer at a children's burn unit at a Belfast hospital. I strongly suggest you do something similar. Walk through a burn ward, then come back and tell me how much God loves everyone.
Fuck you.
Boru
Most people who suffer have serenity to accept what they go through. They don't become bitter over it. Sure they wish it could be otherwise, but they have serenity. As I said, God doesn't go out of his way to burn people in fires, or cause diseases or cause poverty...this all part of the natural universe we are in. He created a natural universe yes, but he isn't picking people to suffer.
