Why Thanking God is Hurtful

[Thumpalumpacus]

.... I see GC is shitting up yet another thread with his lowbrow ramblings. I'm still waiting for the little pissant to explain why Hell is just, but he's unable to do so. What a blowhard.

I have several times, it's not my fault you missed or ignored them.

Your attempts, such as they are, are entirely insufficient to justify your claim that your god is perfectly just.

The only reason I don't put him on ignore is that I'd lose many opportunities to mock his earnest stupidity and dullard tendencies.

Please do both of us a favor and do so, I'm tired of your childish ramblings. You like Min bring nothing to an argument but hate and we all can do without that.

GC

Why don't you pray that this should happen, and let's see the results? Let's see your faith in action.

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To many faithful, terrible things like cancer are created by god as tests to see how closely they adhere to the tenets of that faith. They get rewarded either way - if they die, they go to heaven. If they survived, then god has something else planned for them since they obviously passed the test.

It's a simpleminded way to explain both bad, nonsensical things and why some people live through them and others don't. The kind of reasoning a child would employ because it's simple and always yields a happy answer, even in the face of suffering.

Like a lot of things in religion, it's merely empty talk dressed as wisdom aimed to take the attention away from the here and now.

Of course ... never mind the internal contradiction of an omniscient god testing his subjects.