Why Does God Let Really Bad Stuff Happen?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Every liberal thinks he is his own God. That's the core of what it means to be liberal, really. It's a rejection of rightful authority, including God himself, and a replacement with personal authority, which ironically always leads to tyranny.

E.g. Show me the "Christian" who dissents from Christian theology and dogma in some way, and I will show you a liberal.

Protestants are all liberals?

More like a stepping stone to it. Without the Protestant revolt, there would be no liberals as we know of them.

True. They’d all have hot pokers up their assholes.

[de officiis]

So the equivalency is being made with a parent that left his kids a confusing note, and then abandoned them for 2,000 years. And they shouldn’t complain if they suffer.

Sounds like a God I should worship.

Sounds more like an article you should skip because it’s not worth reading.

[SuburbanFarmer]

So the equivalency is being made with a parent that left his kids a confusing note, and then abandoned them for 2,000 years. And they shouldn’t complain if they suffer.

Sounds like a God I should worship.

Sounds more like an article you should skip because it’s not worth reading.

What article? It’s a 2-paragraph blog post with no thought behind it.

[Ex-California]

My god is Divus Ilius

[brewster]

"How do you know you're God"
"When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself"

I can't make the embed start at 1:34 for the best part.



Why Does God Let Really Bad Stuff Happen? Read the Old Testament. God is really an asshole who loves fucking with people. Every Passover we're supposed to ponder the fact that when Pharaoh was going to let the Jews go, "God hardened Pharaoh's heart", just so God could really get down to the nastiest plagues. I mean, the show must go on, right? Picture an 8 year old boy playing at an epic battle with army men, and you've got the right idea. It's all about the drama.

[Speaker to Animals]

Or maybe he is just constantly very disappointed in you guys.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Or maybe he is just constantly very disappointed in you guys.

Yes, the previous 10 billion of us sucked, therefore we must watch our kids die.
More praying dammit!!

[Okeefenokee]

This is the part where he says God is supposed to do what he thinks he should do, because he is god too.

[Montegriffo]

Because
a) God doesn't exist
b) God doesn't care.

My money's on the former.

[DBTrek]

My money is on none of us having the answer, and the dumbest of us acting like we have the obvious answer.