# How Can A Loving God Allow Innocent People To Die? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 25, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755 "2006-11-25T17:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/221 "2006-12-16T00:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=johnny M] He is going to give you the same cross (or suffering) as he gave his son Jesus. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s a strong selling point. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/222 "2006-12-16T01:08:34Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Yes, it does. It’s a human word defining a human concept. It means what we say it means. [/QUOTE] Well, we know that “God is Love” because the Bible tells us, right? and the Bible is the word of God, isn’t it? Maybe something got lost in translation. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/223 "2006-12-16T02:11:33Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] It means “emotional response”, right? [/QUOTE] A particular one yes. Which leads right to . . . [QUOTE=Sapo] Well, we know that “God is Love” because the Bible tells us, right? and the Bible is the word of God, isn’t it? Maybe something got lost in translation. [/QUOTE] Or maybe it just makes no sense. Or maybe the writer of that phrase was being poetic, and didn’t mean that God is made of lovium. Taken literally, “God is love” is a silly statement, not to mention insulting to God. Even a housecat would be superior to a being that consists of nothing but a single emotion, after all, even if the idea of something being made of an emotion made sense. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/224 "2006-12-16T02:25:28Z")
I’ve concluded that the OP’s students automatically flunk his classes if they engage in any kind of critical thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/225 "2006-12-16T02:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Or maybe it just makes no sense. Or maybe the writer of that phrase was being poetic, and didn’t mean that God is made of lovium. Taken literally, “God is love” is a silly statement, not to mention insulting to God. Even a housecat would be superior to a being that consists of nothing but a single emotion, after all, even if the idea of something being made of an emotion made sense. [/QUOTE] hey, don’t shoot the messenger. 🙂 that’s what the good book reads. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/226 "2006-12-16T02:59:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Everytime we talk about god, we are flatworms discussing quantum computing. Well, yeah, except for the fact that quantum computing, you know, _exists._ ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755/227 "2006-12-16T14:25:46Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] Well, yeah, except for the fact that quantum computing, you know, _exists._ [/QUOTE] 🙂 not in their flatwormy little minds. Any effect it may have on them, if any and if they are able to perceive it at all, won’t be interpreted byt them as an effect of quantum computing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-innocent-people-to-die/381755.md?page=11)