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You're another atheist consumed with other people's beliefs, huh? Seems that your problem is with other people, not God.No.
It's pathetic for people to thank god for winning football games, finding car keys or postponing a major exam while children are molested, murdered or starve to death amid enormous wealth.
I was infuriated by someone who claimed god was looking out for him and his family because they were not standing in the path of the car that killed people at homecoming. So his god lined up those fatalities, including the little boy, to be sure they all died that day??
You don't get anywhere calling people out for such thoughts, so I don't bother.
The idea that god spends any time hovering over every little thing that you do every minute of the day is the very definition of arrogance. Where will those people say their god was on the day he punched their dance card with cancer, an out-of-control dump truck or a bullet intended for someone else?
You're another atheist consumed with other people's beliefs, huh? Seems that your problem is with other people, not God.
Atheists aren't "consumed" by religion except in those societies which insist on shoving it in their faces every day.
I'm amused by this discourse, but that response is not your best.Tons, great to hear you support Sharia law being imposed on the world. I completely agree with you. I sincerely want some religious zealots telling me and my family how to live.
I don't believe in anything. Nothing is being "shoved in my face" everyday.Since there's no god, that just leaves the behaviors of those consumed by religion to shake my head at. Atheists aren't "consumed" by religion except in those societies which insist on shoving it in their faces every day.
It's natural to wonder about these things and quite common to have them cause a struggle of faith.Why does God allow children to suffer years of physical/mental/sexual abuse at the hands of fellow man, yet allows others to live perfectly normal/happy lives? Why do huge numbers of people starve to death each year yet so many eat to excess?
These are the types of struggles I face when considering the idea of a loving God. I hate it (the struggle) as there are also so many wonderful/awe inspiring things in this world as well.
What is luck?
Why does God allow children to suffer years of physical/mental/sexual abuse at the hands of fellow man, yet allows others to live perfectly normal/happy lives? Why do huge numbers of people starve to death each year yet so many eat to excess?
These are the types of struggles I face when considering the idea of a loving God. I hate it (the struggle) as there are also so many wonderful/awe inspiring things in this world as well.
It's natural to wonder about these things and quite common to have them cause a struggle of faith.
God isn't "just" love; i.e. he isn't just defined by his expression of love. That impression, or the over-emphasis of "God is love", to the detriment of God's other attributes is largely a function of the modern church.
Most of all, God is Holy. As Rev. 4 says: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." And He is sovereign.
Who says it's "luck"?Being born to a middle class family in the US versus being born to an impoverished family in Mumbai.
Who says it's "luck"?
I don't know the complete answer to that. The short answer is that it it's God's will. It can be troubling for sure, but perhaps the proper response is to be humbly grateful if one isn't, one of those born into a life of suffering and to demonstrate that humility and thankfulness every day and by helping others (and believe me, I say that not as someone who does a fantastic job of this myself).That's my point. Why would some be born into an earthly life of suffering and others born into a life of luxury?
That's my point. Why would some be born into an earthly life of suffering and others born into a life of luxury?