Joined: 15 Nov 2007 Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 3,515
19 Aug 2008, 8:59 am
slowmutant wrote:
If you blame God for all your miseries, you effectively take away your own free will. It's amusing how some people will believe in God, but only inasmuch as He can be blamed for all their problems and none of their joys. Free will means you are reponsible for your own life, the good and the bad.
Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Age: 47 Gender: Male Posts: 8,430 Location: Ontario, Canada
19 Aug 2008, 9:45 am
I have heard of the Catholic Church being sued effectively for pedophile-related damages. That is as close as you'll ever get to pursuing legal action against God Himself. I think your grievances are actually with your fellow man not with the Almighty. We have not been promised Paradise in this earthly existence. No, if anything this earthly world is closer to hell. Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to the light ...
Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Age: 100 Gender: Male Posts: 11,484 Location: Finland
19 Aug 2008, 9:49 am
Considering what God has actually done lately a successful suit against fellow men who have been proclaiming and enforcing what they claim is God's will would be most satisfactory.
Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Age: 100 Gender: Male Posts: 11,484 Location: Finland
19 Aug 2008, 10:14 am
One of the delights of being a God is that You can create creatures with motivations that inevitably lead to incessant brutality and horror and then run away and claim innocence because You could not foresee what your creations would perform. Or could You?
Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Age: 47 Gender: Male Posts: 8,430 Location: Ontario, Canada
19 Aug 2008, 10:21 am
We have free will and as such we can make all sorts of claims as to why we do the horrible things we do. In these cases, God is the convenient excuse, the handy pretext for sanctifiying bloodshed, for beatifying war and making saints of warmongers.
Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Age: 47 Gender: Male Posts: 8,430 Location: Ontario, Canada
19 Aug 2008, 10:46 am
You accuse God of incompetence and stupidity? No, only human beings like you and I are susceptible to those things. It is we who are incompetent and stupid. Human reason should not be worshipped because it 's fallibe.
Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Age: 100 Gender: Male Posts: 11,484 Location: Finland
19 Aug 2008, 11:24 am
Now, this business of worshiping gets me. I don't kneel down and bow my head to reason any more than I do to a cell phone or an electric drill. It's a tool and I use it. And it works pretty well most of the time. Especially if all the data is right. I have no idea what worshiping is supposed to do. It certainly doesn't seem to have any effect on God who is pretty handy with hurricanes, exploding volcanoes, floods and cancer and poison ivy.
Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 1,757
19 Aug 2008, 11:36 am
I'm suing God. The other day I tripped on one of His creations, a tree root. He shouldn't have left it lying around, and I think He should be financially liable for my foot's distress.
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