Children that God neglected

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These children have cancer. What sort of god allows children to suffer from cancer? And to die horrible slow deaths from cancer?

Is god punishing these children? Is he neglecting them? Does he lack the power necessary to help them? Do these children deserve to suffer from cancer?

Are you struggling with your faith, or just out to annoy Christians?

No, your goal is to keep bashing people for merely having a strong belief in God. I just cannot figure out why you have such a problem with people who do believe. Then use these pictures of kids dying to futher your agenda is pretty low.
After reading your latest post, we now know how gonad-less you really are.

It seems to me, from what I have read in the media, and as a Canadian, that your anti-Christian views are a response to the cultural war going on in the US between the Christian Right who support Bush and those who do not. Isn't that what this is really about? I do think it might be more useful if you could post about the kind of society that you would prefer, the principles you believe in, and in experientally based posts rather than purely ideological ones. Right now this whole debate is polarized between two extreme views which makes it boring and irrational. .

Ok, if it's a serious question then here's a serious answer.

God, and what he does or doesn't do, is generally considered to be beyond human understanding. Maybe it isn't important that we live full and happy lives. Maybe what makes humans special is free-will, and guaranteeing us long and untroubled lives would somehow diminish that. Maybe those kids are going to have an eternity of bliss to make up for the crappy cards they got dealt in this life. Or maybe understanding the answer is entirely beyond us. If you start from a position of faith in an unknowable God, it really isn't much of a stretch to get to any of these answers.

You're answer was vague and predictable. I want an answer that consists of something beyond telling me that you don't know and can't know. If you don't/can't know, don't answer.

I'm not sure whether a God exists or not, but I won't believe in a God that would punish people. God is the creator and has no reason to punish people when God understands people most.

For example, a mother may get p***ed off at her child for not getting good grades, but the mother doesn't understand how the child feels. The child may feel very overwhelmed by work and gives in to computer addiction.

The mother thinks that the child doesn't care about his/her grades, but in reality, the child may feel weak for being addicted to the computer and finding work overwhelming. As a result, the mother punishes the child by taking the monitor away.

The mother doesn't understand how the child feels and the child doesn't understand why the mother doesn't understand him/her. The reason the child is getting punished is due to the mother's lack of understanding. God however, understands both people and know a lot more about them than anyone living on the earth.

This is why I refuse to believe in a God that punishes people.

As for why a God would let people get cancer: The answer is beyond our limited knowledge and imagination. Maybe God is a creator and not a modifier?

Dude, come on....I´m a hardcore atheist and even I´m a little offended.....

Yes, these are serious and legitimate questions, but the POST is only legitimate if you yourself have not come to any conclusions, but I think its obvious that you have your own answers already, so its just trolling.