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Old 05-19-2012, 05:55 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Honestly, this is a serious question.
Why does so much bad stuff go on in the World?

2010 Earthquake kills 300,000+
September 11th
USA attacks Japan
December 1879: Birth of Joseph Stalin
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Old 05-19-2012, 06:04 PM
 
Location: under a rock
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Honestly, this is a serious question.
Why does so much bad stuff go on in the World?

2010 Earthquake kills 300,000+
September 11th
USA attacks Japan
December 1879: Birth of Joseph Stalin
No, it just means that there are a lot of whacked out people, men with megalomanic motives, and plate tectonics.
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Old 05-19-2012, 06:19 PM
 
Location: OKC
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Either God does not exist or he behaves as though he doesn't exist.
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Old 05-19-2012, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Treasure Island Fl
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Don't you people know, anything bad is not of God's doing. Now, when something good happens, it's a gift from God!
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Old 05-19-2012, 07:23 PM
 
Location: playing in the colorful Colorado dirt
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I don't believe in God but just for the sake of argument, if he did exist, I can't understand him hating his alleged creation.

I can however see him being pretty ticked off at everyone who professes to speak for him.

I know I would be.
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Old 05-19-2012, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Arizona High Desert
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The bible certainly makes this god out to be a monster, and I believe in god, but my god would whup his a hole for drowning babies, and telling his kids to pillage, steal, KILL.
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Old 05-19-2012, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Honestly, this is a serious question.
Why does so much bad stuff go on in the World?

2010 Earthquake kills 300,000+
September 11th
USA attacks Japan
December 1879: Birth of Joseph Stalin
Yes, got hates you all... but that's because nobody's been sending me checks to buy the necessary palace full of fine, shiny things that god requires to be placated. You can pay me with money or you can pay for your sins through physical suffering and torment. Your choice.
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Old 05-20-2012, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Earth Wanderer, longing for the stars.
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I believe that just as there are animals below us in intelligence and capabilities, it makes sense that there are creatures that far above us as well.

The God in the bible demonstrates many of the qualities that, if our neighbor demonstrated them, we would shy away from him. He is jealous, pompous, spoiled, fit throwing, a racist, homophobic, petty. He causes floods and destruction and plagues.

So, if this is our 'God' he certainly is not in our camp. If you look at this guy in the bible you can get the feeling that he may be a scientist, experimenting, creating a race and telling them not to marry outsiders. Separating peoples by language differences. Yet when he's not pleased with the job that He has done, he wipes out whole groups of us.

So, yeah, this guy may have a 'plan' but we all don't figure so well in it, do we? We seem to be toys that he plays with. What does he care of our 'feelings' or health or well being? He seems pretty much only concerned with the results of the experiment.

There may be a god, but not the guy in the bible. No way.
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Old 05-20-2012, 07:18 PM
 
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Why say it eloquently? Bad things happen because some people are dicks who impose their rules made to benfit themselves or other dicks. Second, the dicks in power are indifferent to the problems they create or problems that existed without them.Thrid, somtimes dicks benfit from the misfortune of others.Fourth, there are not enough people who aren't dicks to stop or oppose every dick. Fifth, no matter how many people aren't dicks they can't stop every misfortune in the world.God was created as the greatest, unquestionable dick, by earthly dicks who saw that other people might question them and their rules. I take it back. I said it in the most eloquent way possible.

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Old 05-20-2012, 10:05 PM
 
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Ah, even the Biblical writers had problems with God at times. Just ask good ol' Job, who despite being an exceptional individual in God's eyes, had some choice cuts to make against him:
Though you know that I am not guilty,
There is no escape from your hand.
Your hands molded and made me,
And then turned to destroy me.
(Job 10:7-8, AB)

'Guiltless as well as wicked he destroys'.
When the scourge slays suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Earth is given to the control of the wicked,
The faces of her judges he covers.
If not he, then who?
(Job 9:22a-24)
We are not the first ones to have a problem with God and the issue of Theodicy. Even some of the Biblical writers had issues with it. The best expression of this is the Book of Job, and it should be required reading for believers and non-believers alike. The content may surprise you.

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