It is obvious as to our current event, so in keeping this in mind, I am making a general criticism about WHY god as a concept is a broken claim. DO NOT read further if you are sensitive.
Before any theist reads any further, this is strictly about a concept as a claim, much like one would review a book or movie. I do hate ALL claims of the invisible brain theory as to cause of life. If it makes no sense to most that the sun is a god, why would life or nature, either the good or bad that happen, need a super hero vs a super villain to explain?
Now, I still to this day have yet to see a credible refutation to Epicurus and his problem with evil. And it turns my stomach knowing that real heros like Victoria Soto did the demonstrable, the provable and the valued. Yet our species time after time, be it enslavement of blacks, genocide of native Americans, 6 million Jews murdered, 13,000 drowned in the Japanese Tsunami, yet as a species we still allow our brains to concoct and swallow fictitious super hero in some false sense of hope to make sense of life.
Now, as hard as it may be to read the following, READ IT, and after reading it please give me one good reason WHY you think there is a cosmic man with a cape?
26 human beings were turned into Swiss Cheese. 20 were kids, many probably shot in the head. That would mean their skulls were exploded like Gallaghar smashing a watermelon. That would mean their brains and or guts splattered on the floor and walls.
No sane person if 100% of the time, had the power to stop harm to their loved ones, much less kids, would allow such. It makes even less sense to me when a fictitious "all powerful" god is inserted. What does make sense to me is that a disturbed person got a hold of guns and riffles and murdered kids.
No sane person would hire a baby sitter if they said "I sat 99 kids. 33 I shot a molester before they got to the kid. 33 I allowed the molester to molest the kid, but shot him before he left the house. And 33 I let the molester molest and murder the kid and let the molester go".
Why am I being so harsh, especially in such trying time? Because I am tired of the horrors in life being used to prop up what is clearly superstition. If we are going to, as a species reduce harm and find answers to reduce harm, then we cannot afford to cling to the past anymore than it would make sense to still believe the earth is flat.
You do not need a belief in Allah or Vishnu or Thor or Jesus to feel pain. You do not need a super hero vs a super villain to know what happened at that grade school, or murder in general, or war in general, or death in general, is something no human wants affecting them.
Some would accuse me of being insensitive to this moment. So when is the moment? To me demanding my silence in the face of absurdity as an answer as to why such horrors exist would be to excuse the Dark Ages and witch hunts. It is to excuse the subjugation of woman and forcing them to wear Burkas. It is to excuse the false beliefs of the past like epilepsy being a demon rather than a natural brain defect. It is to excuse all superstitions in the face of clear reality.
Those poor kids died for the same reason 700,000 kids worldwide die from drinking dirty water. They died for the same reason a robber murders someone for money. It isn't that we want those things to happen, no sane person does. Bad things happen because they do and we'd be better served in order to reduce the risk of bad things happening by scrapping such superstitions and look to study the environments that lead to such conditions so that we can prevent the bad things in life as much as possible.
Reality isn't a utopia, and it can be quite cruel and violent. But sugar coating it with claims of the unprovable and personal predilections of wishful thinking will not and has never solved what in reality is our collective human existence in problem solving. To accept reality does not mean we lack empathy and emotions, it merely means that we should not conflate reality into Superman vs Lex Luthor.
20 kids and 6 adults died in a horror most of us will not face. But just like we do not think the volcano is an angry god, the good and bad in life are better suited to study, rather than inserting comic book answers into a harsh reality, if we wish to resolve the problems in our finite existence.
Victoria is who we should honor, not Jesus, not Allah, not Vishnu. She was real and she did the ultimate compassionate act and will not come back and did so not looking for attention or intent to create a club for people to worship her. It is one thing to mourn. It is another to seek false solace in books and claims and tribalism written in a scientifically ignorant past.
Before any theist reads any further, this is strictly about a concept as a claim, much like one would review a book or movie. I do hate ALL claims of the invisible brain theory as to cause of life. If it makes no sense to most that the sun is a god, why would life or nature, either the good or bad that happen, need a super hero vs a super villain to explain?
Now, I still to this day have yet to see a credible refutation to Epicurus and his problem with evil. And it turns my stomach knowing that real heros like Victoria Soto did the demonstrable, the provable and the valued. Yet our species time after time, be it enslavement of blacks, genocide of native Americans, 6 million Jews murdered, 13,000 drowned in the Japanese Tsunami, yet as a species we still allow our brains to concoct and swallow fictitious super hero in some false sense of hope to make sense of life.
Now, as hard as it may be to read the following, READ IT, and after reading it please give me one good reason WHY you think there is a cosmic man with a cape?
26 human beings were turned into Swiss Cheese. 20 were kids, many probably shot in the head. That would mean their skulls were exploded like Gallaghar smashing a watermelon. That would mean their brains and or guts splattered on the floor and walls.
No sane person if 100% of the time, had the power to stop harm to their loved ones, much less kids, would allow such. It makes even less sense to me when a fictitious "all powerful" god is inserted. What does make sense to me is that a disturbed person got a hold of guns and riffles and murdered kids.
No sane person would hire a baby sitter if they said "I sat 99 kids. 33 I shot a molester before they got to the kid. 33 I allowed the molester to molest the kid, but shot him before he left the house. And 33 I let the molester molest and murder the kid and let the molester go".
Why am I being so harsh, especially in such trying time? Because I am tired of the horrors in life being used to prop up what is clearly superstition. If we are going to, as a species reduce harm and find answers to reduce harm, then we cannot afford to cling to the past anymore than it would make sense to still believe the earth is flat.
You do not need a belief in Allah or Vishnu or Thor or Jesus to feel pain. You do not need a super hero vs a super villain to know what happened at that grade school, or murder in general, or war in general, or death in general, is something no human wants affecting them.
Some would accuse me of being insensitive to this moment. So when is the moment? To me demanding my silence in the face of absurdity as an answer as to why such horrors exist would be to excuse the Dark Ages and witch hunts. It is to excuse the subjugation of woman and forcing them to wear Burkas. It is to excuse the false beliefs of the past like epilepsy being a demon rather than a natural brain defect. It is to excuse all superstitions in the face of clear reality.
Those poor kids died for the same reason 700,000 kids worldwide die from drinking dirty water. They died for the same reason a robber murders someone for money. It isn't that we want those things to happen, no sane person does. Bad things happen because they do and we'd be better served in order to reduce the risk of bad things happening by scrapping such superstitions and look to study the environments that lead to such conditions so that we can prevent the bad things in life as much as possible.
Reality isn't a utopia, and it can be quite cruel and violent. But sugar coating it with claims of the unprovable and personal predilections of wishful thinking will not and has never solved what in reality is our collective human existence in problem solving. To accept reality does not mean we lack empathy and emotions, it merely means that we should not conflate reality into Superman vs Lex Luthor.
20 kids and 6 adults died in a horror most of us will not face. But just like we do not think the volcano is an angry god, the good and bad in life are better suited to study, rather than inserting comic book answers into a harsh reality, if we wish to resolve the problems in our finite existence.
Victoria is who we should honor, not Jesus, not Allah, not Vishnu. She was real and she did the ultimate compassionate act and will not come back and did so not looking for attention or intent to create a club for people to worship her. It is one thing to mourn. It is another to seek false solace in books and claims and tribalism written in a scientifically ignorant past.
