Many people find stories about the Holocaust fascinating and yet they’re true. People can go out into the world and find real danger… our world isn’t like “a Brave New World” where everything basically is drama free.
My point is that in a way there are good aspects to suffering. If there were a god it isn’t necessarily sadistic to allow those things to happen… suffering has an end when people die (I believe). Unlike with the Christian God which many believe causes billions of people/angels to suffer for an eternity.
With the magnitude of the universe, the time scale, and the near infinite interactions that go on, on a daily basis - why would God care which house you rent? Why assume that he knows anything at all about the happenings of human beings?
It seems awfully arrogant to me to assume that all this was created for us.
I’m sure all the kids that have died from starvation as I type this post would agree. Oh actually no they are dead and according to you this is to create drama and an exciting story.
Yeah but it’s not furnished, half the time the AC doesnt work and half the time the heater is broken, a lot of places dont even have hot & cold running water, and maintenance is non-existent. I think we should contact an escrow agency until these things are fixed.
According to statistics, some time in the next 2 hours a child will be raped and possibly killed. God sits there and watches this happen, and could easily stop it. How exactly is that not sadistic? For what purpose does that child suffer?
I’ve heard it said that the purpose is to make the rest of us care enough to do something…which means that, in God’s eyes, the child is more of a tossaway prop than a human being.
Oh hold on. I was just in the middle of colliding a couple of galaxies together to jump start the life creation process on a half billion worlds. But you say a couple of the talking meatblobs on your particular ball of rock are doing something they shouldn’t be doing?
For me God is Love, and also ‘God is One’, the first part means whenever there is Love, giving love of the heart, that is God, the second part is when that Love comes through a person, that person is acting in one with God and is as much God as is God, at least for the time they are acting in Love. That such loving act is God’s domain, so it is God that takes control when such a act happens.
As you mentioned Christianity, for me Jesus is the Son of God because He acted in Love, but we all have that potential, so we all can be God’s son’s and daughters, and we can all be found ‘sinless’ in the sight of God, since whatever we have done ‘bad’ or ‘sinful’ in our lives has lead us to decide that Love is the only way, to accept and become God’s child, therefor, since our past ‘seemingly’ sinful live has taught us to decide on God’s path, it was exactly what we needed, therefor no sin exists. It just goes to what we needed to do and live to make the right choice, so it was a teaching method.
Is it wrong that whenever I read stuff like this I begin to understand the urge to feed christians to lions? I mean it’s so impenetratibly dull that the only way you can hope to interest me is to watch you running away screaming from a large hungry predator.
Bah. Damn kids are everywhere. A great pad with low rent, parking, unobstructed view and northeast light… that’s an answer to a prayer if I’ve ever heard one.
Maybe God could have found you guys better paying jobs? That way you could afford the rent and live by yourself.
You’re not talking about an intelligent force, you are talking about a force that cares for you in particular. Drowning babies in floods is fine to increase drama but somehow getting you a good rental is a better use of god’s time. A tad egotistical, perhaps? If you feel better in believing in an intelligent force who created the universe for some unknown reason and never bothers us, go for it. You can’t disprove that. But once you have god interfering you run into problems.
And Oz said, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” Same thing, basically.
Let’s just say that the need for conflict in fiction is not exactly an earth-shattering piece of teaching. But we who write might treat our characters a bit better if they were real, thinking, beings. We can destroy planets at the stroke of a pen and no one gets harmed. Any god should be held to a higher standard, or else is a monster.
