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To: Tribune7
God commands us to do good and not to do evil. What if the command God gave was "I take pleasure in your suffering. Make your neighbor suffer and you might not suffer as much as you would otherwise?" Pretty horrifying, huh.

God doesn't follow his own advice so he's a hypocrite. His followers, like most humans, are pretty loving and giving people. God clearly takes pleasure in suffering or else he wouldn't have worked so hard at making sure there was plenty of it (or else he's a bumbling idiot who had no idea about the consequences of his actions). It reminds me of a South Park episode where the Catholic priest delivers this sermon:

It is sometimes hard, in times like these, to understand God's way. Why would he allow nine innocent people to be run down in the prime of their lives by a senior citizen who, perhaps, shouldn't be driving? It is then that we must understand, God's sense of humor is very different from our own. He does not laugh at the simple "man walks into a bar" joke. No, God needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem macabre to you and me. All that we can hope for is that God got his good laugh and a tragedy such as this will never happen again.

There is a ridiculous amount of evidence that we are alone in the universe, that there is no supreme being who cares for us or about us. The only "evidence" is that people conclude on our paltry ability to examine the universe at this present date that the most plausible explanation is that some supernatural entity was responsible for everything, and that doesn't even narrow down anything about who god is or what he wants from us.

134 posted on 05/13/2007 3:38:02 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
"doesn't even narrow down anything about who god is or what he wants from us."

The Bible nails it on the head. I call that "evidence."

135 posted on 05/13/2007 3:48:12 PM PDT by Enosh (†)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
like most humans, are pretty loving and giving people

The guy who killed Jessica Lunsford was a human being. The ones who ran Dachau were human beings. The same goes for the gulags. Caesar was a human being. Why do you think most humans are pretty loving and giving people? What, you live among Christians or in Christian culture or something?

There is a ridiculous amount of evidence that we are alone in the universe,

Good. You understand there are no ETs and that Earth is a privileged planet. As far as things beyond the material, any thinking person would assume the supernatural.

139 posted on 05/13/2007 3:56:40 PM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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