A religious conversation ending before I can post? **** THAT!!!
Originally posted by Phantom MiriaYou are implying that a being such as a supposed God would even be bound by the same concepts of morality that we are. When from a logical perspective, why would he be?
[b]Why would he not care? It is a legitimate question. Not saying He should solve our problems, but there is a middle-plane that is not solving nor ignoring. Right now it seems like He is doing the latter.And our problems via free will? How is it free will's fault that children are starving in states of poverty? How is it free will's fault that diseases has wiped out massive groups of people throughout human history.
Was it free will that lead to virtually genocide of the native americans?
You can twist it and say that it was the free will of the Spanish people, and the rest of the lot, that brought them to America and brought death to the inhabitants, but if such is the case, then truly God is malevolent for the native Americans never did anyone harm, and it was disease that took out most of them. It was not even the hands of the Spanish or whonow.
It was not free will that caused the Haiti disaster.
But anyway, I am all for religion. I encourage people to have faith. I admire those who believe in God. I am the last one to say you should not believe in him. All that I want said, all that this post wants put out there, is: Do not throw the "free will" shit around and say God gave it to us and as such we will pay for it.
Freedom comes at a price. Obviously we can not handle it. If it was given to us by God and we are now ignored by said entity, then he is undeniably malevolent.
I am not saying that he IS malevolent. I am just saying that according to your case, he would be.
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When water floods an ant colony, do you stop to help it? Would you even take notice or care?
Why would a cosmic entity that is infinitely out greater have any real care for us?
If God truly exists, I do not believe he would concern himself with human affairs, considering our laughable insignifigance and smallness within the universe. Why would something so small, smaller than the difference between a whale and at atom, matter to something as large as God?
They say God is omnipresent, basically, he is the universe. If this is true, should we not look at the workings of the universe? When a hurricane ruins a city, was it because the hurricane was evil? If a star goes supernova, and the life within the solar system dies as a result, would it be because the star was malevolent? If the Big Chill is possible (Really going to happen), and the universe expands forever, decaying all the particles of the universe, killing all life. Will it be because the universe is evil?
Personally, I think if there is a God, he would be like what he represents, neutral, not good or evil, he simply is.
Just my two cents. Stuff.