Why couldn’t Christ stop the abuse in the first place? What’s the point of praying afterwards? That’s the problem I and others have with religion. No all powerful god should sit idly by while a child gets buggered by an evil man. Then he provides “healing” through prayer afterwards? Just doesn’t make sense.
Strider, if there were no God, why would you even think this buggering was morally objectionable? Bonobo monkeys do it.
The bonobos don’t mind. Why should you?
But God doesn’t want us to be bonobos. He wants us to be free rational creatures -— not witless animals, not pets, not sock puppets, not robots, not venriloqueists’ dummies.
That means He has to leave our behavior in our own hands. not overwhelm and control us at every point. Or we’d be CGIs. Like in the Matrix. Would want that?