You see, I had to save you by sacrificing Myself to Me, because the animal blood was not enough to satiate Me and Myself. If I hadn’t of sacrificed Myself to Me, I would have had to kill you all for your filthy vileness that I made in My and Me’s image by Myself and Me. I will return soon, and then I’ll murder most of you with the demons that I made with Myself, and My Son and Me will rule the rest of you for a thousand years and then Me and Me and the Magic Bird and you will live forever and ever and I promise I won’t kill you anymore or anything for real.
Because “gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOuS wAyS”. They use that hand wave just justify it all.
Train crash kills 99 of 100 people
It’s a miracle!
Tornado knocks down the entire street except one house. Thank god!
I remember a local story a few years back about a woman who lost two children in a house fire. She thanked god for sparing the rest.
That’s some abused spouse logic right there.
If they believe their kids went to heaven, they might also thank god for
murdering kids“taking his children home.” It’s a death cult.
Faith, AKA follow along our cult and shut the fuck up! He has a plan and his plan don’t like you mutha fucka.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
In philosophy of religion, the problem of evil, also known as the problem of suffering, is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the notion of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.
Philosophers have been considering this one for at least 2300 years.
I’ll update this post when they come to a firm conclusion.
I thought the answer was free will
The most plausible conclusion would seem to be that God is not merciful, but is instead a sadist. But most people don’t want to continuously live in fear, and there’s clearly nothing you can do to mitigate the suffering by appeasing a sadistic God who gives children cancer for the lols.
The answer is simple. The premise is wrong. The reason it has taken 2300 years is because people have too strong a fear of mortality and need daddygod to save them. I get it. It’s terrifying.
But this isn’t a hard problem at all. It’s akin to “if leprechauns exist, why can’t I find the pot of gold”
Ehh, there are many explanations that do make sense (within theology, anyways). It’s really everyone’s assumption that “omnibenevolent” somehow magically means he wouldn’t allow any harm or ill feelings, which… is a very silly premise to begin with. Many people also remove God’s own free will by somehow thinking omnipotence mixed in means he must do certain things.
I don’t believe in the BS most religions teach, or basically all of them if you take their teachings as a whole, but the absolutism in some of the dismissals get just as silly. Many teach about human free will, which immediately tells you that God can choose not to do things in the first place, let alone all the, “mysterious ways” crap.
Also, a funnier direct explanation could be that all that BS about humans being special and that other animals are just chattel for us to take care of and bla bla… What if God has been talking to some other species the whole time and we’re just hearing bits of the convo? I’d laugh my ass off if those sorts of religions were largely correct but turns out it’s like dust mites that are the chosen ones, and we’re just their giant dust cows.
Oooh, ooooh! I know this one!
Anyone else?
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Religious folks generally arent all that great at looking at their religion critcally.
Because fairytales aren’t real? I thought adults were supposed to know that…
Unfortunately, a lot of adults told us those fairy tales when we were young, and we believed them for a long time…
But fairytales ARE real! I personally heard a few. Even created two or three.
“it’s just a prank, bro!” - god probably
God didn’t do that, you did! You’re a fucking narcotics agent!
Religion and indoctrinates you to believe that everything bad that happens to you is your own fault, and everything good that happens is because of god.
Sometimes the bad is attributed to satan. …whom god created and continues to allow to do evil, I guess, because something something “free will” and we’re just supposed to ignore all the times god instantly killed other beings who took actions against his will.
Mysterious ways, how dare you ask reasonable questions, etc etc. It’s all about victim-blaming.
Because they won’t say it but they like being dominated by sky daddy
If I found evidence that creator exists, I would be convinced they are either sadistic or indifferent. I’m not going to assign them nice qualities just to make them seem better.
“Also, all is according to my design, and you going to Hell for all eternity was always part of my ineffable plan.”
Oh they know who put them there and it wasn’t god
just let people have imaginary comfort friends.
as long as they aren’t using their imaginary friends as excuses to be assholes.
The only real issue I have with this additude is that it absolves people from actively helping others (with charity and/or left-wing politics) and instead giving “thoughts and prayers”. No one’s gonna save us except ourselves.
“I’m special because I believe all this contradictory crap without evidence, and you can be special too.” is already being an asshole.
If someone says “thank god” when getting out of a bad situation, and you assume all of that. that’s projection and you’re the assholes.
they definitely are
This is the most Christian response; a clueless reply casually omitting the atrocities the Christian religion has brought and continues to bring on this planet.
10/10 no notes.
not chritian, but complaining about what’s basically an expression is such a minor meaningless nitpick.
Compared to the actual problems that religion have.
