# Perfect being punishes its imperfect creation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837 "2012-06-11T18:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Veneriable\_Slacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/838e76/32.png) [@Veneriable\_Slacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Veneriable_Slacks)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/1 "2012-06-11T18:02:40Z")
“Why would an all-powerful being create an imperfect being, then punish it for being impefect?” I saw this written in a public toilet and it caused me to flush. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/2 "2012-06-11T18:12:33Z")
I’m not sure of what the intent of the OP is, but let’s move this over to MPSIMS for now. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/3 "2012-06-11T18:14:39Z")
Dunno. Hang on, I gotta wash my hands. – P. Pilate. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/4 "2012-06-11T18:29:33Z")
“Then I got a second chance made perfect beings who shit their pants” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/5 "2012-06-11T18:36:42Z")
Could God create a person so imperfect even He could not salvage it? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/6 "2012-06-11T18:49:39Z")
Give your God a little class – don’t write His name where you wipe your ass. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/7 "2012-06-11T19:31:00Z")
Burma Shave! ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/8 "2012-06-11T19:45:49Z")
If there is a god, he’s probably created zillions of creatures by now and can’t remember where he put them all, let alone who they are and what they’ve been up to. After all, does a brewer know where each of the yeast buds in his beer are? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/9 "2012-06-11T20:06:47Z")
This sounds like the plot for a recently released sci-fi movie. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/10 "2012-06-11T20:12:51Z")
Impefect? God also didn’t teach them how to spell. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/11 "2012-06-11T20:32:21Z")
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Like a couchbound dad who tells his kid “you’ll understand when you’re older” when asked why his half-assed attempt at restoring a 57’ Chevy rests and rusts atop concrete blocks over a patch of long-dead grass in the backyard. _And go get me another Stroh’s!_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/12 "2012-06-11T22:58:29Z")
“Here I sit brokenhearted. Tried to create perfect beings like myself but only farted.” ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/13 "2012-06-12T04:50:42Z")
> [@Veneriable\_Slacks](#): > > “Why would an all-powerful being create an imperfect being, then punish it for being impefect?” I saw this written in a public toilet and it caused me to flush. Sounds more like the restrooms in the research library I practically lived in during college. Including the ironic misspelling. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/14 "2012-06-12T06:56:34Z")
The red kind of flush, or the toilet kind of flush? Or both? Many of my nickels will be won or lost by your intended meaning. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/15 "2012-06-12T11:22:33Z")
Sounds like Henry Clerval is ranking on Victor Frankenstein in public again. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/16 "2012-06-12T13:29:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Sounds like Henry Clerval is ranking on Victor Frankenstein in public again. I miss Dennis Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/17 "2012-06-12T14:52:11Z")
There is no indication that the all-powerful being in the quote in the OP is perfect. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/18 "2012-06-12T17:53:15Z")
More to the point: nor that it punishes its creatures for being imperfect. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/19 "2012-06-12T18:01:42Z")
I only came in here because I thought it was about my wife punishing the kids. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837/20 "2012-06-12T19:12:07Z")
I am Nomad. You are imperfect. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-being-punishes-its-imperfect-creation/624837.md?page=2)