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Originally Posted by polak
So essentially, he lets millions of families lose their children to terminal illness at a young age to stroke his ego?
Sound like a great guy. I think I'd side with the anti-god if that's the case.
My whole family is super-catholic (my parents less so know that we're in Canada) but I made my decision before high school that there was too much pointless suffering in this world for their to be a God that would be worthy of worship. My grade 9 religion teacher told me that my final exam, where I answered the essay portion with my explination as to why I don't believe in God, made her cry and called me a bad person for it, when I asked her why thats the case, I'll never forget how she was lost for words and told me to leave.
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I don't know why I'm debating it and I probably won't continue to, I'm the wrong person to debate it.
But it has nothing to do with Ego stroking.
First of all if you read the book of Genesis, it basically lays out that the world is under God's curse because of the rebellion of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Evil, God didn't create or divine acts of evil and suffering, but he allowed them entrance to this world.
I think it was in the book of Romans and in revelations that the world is a corrupted place but some day God will put it all right.
I guess you could argue that God didn't create evil in the world, and he probably isn't the guy pulling the triggers today, he created a flawed world and a flawed species if God did create man (again arguing from a biblical point of view and not my own right) and gave him free will, then he's not going to interject to stop those acts, the punishment suppossedly comes in the after life or the end of times.
Just some thoughts.
BTW I really don't think a religious debate is all that appropriate in this thread.