Isn't it cruel to create someone such that they have no choice, no mercy, nothing but eternal damnation? And at the same time create others such that they have no choice but eternal happiness?
It's, I dunno how else to describe it but capricious and cruel, a world without meaning.
Who says they have no choice? They always choose evil.
Pardon the crudity of this illustration. Jesus is not Kobe Beef. But, say If I'm having a party where I'm serving, lets say, Kobe Beef. Everyone in the room is a completely starving person and yet, every last person, refuses to participate in my feast. I really want to show them what a blessing is before them. I want to fill their emptiness and embrace them with love, but they still refuse. Now, I'm given some special ability. I am able to take a special ability and change the mind of whomever I want to. I reach out, touch some of the refusees but leave others to their own desires. I never prohibit the and in fact testify all over the place, whosoever will make come and dine - but they won't. The reason that I don't go ahead and use my special ability is because I want those whom I have touched to learn from whence they have come, and how great my mercy was in touching them. They deserved to starve, but I had mercy on them. For the others, I allowed them their own desires which was to have nothing to do with my feast. Who is at fault that they starve?
It renders sin meaningless too. Robots cannot sin. The way Protestants describe it, I have visions of the "saved" walking around with God's tractor beams attached to their foreheads, leading them around like zombies.
If they do good, it's because God made them do good; if they sin, well, God made them do that too. It's a masochistic kind of love they exhibit in my opinion. How can you love someone like that?
For God made a man and a woman, happy and content and then He made them disobey so that he can punish them and all their generations in order to have an excuse to sacrifice His own Son for His wounded "pride."
Calvinism believes it was all choreographed by none other than God, of course. All the suffering is God-made by their theology, although they deny it (then again, abused people deny violence too; it's called repression). It really makes you wonder of the mindset that is attracted to that kind of thinking.