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TIMMYTALES
How facile to ascribe all the good things in life to God, and the bad to some mythical being caled Satan! What a cop out!
" God is this or that" God says this or that" Really? I wan't aware that God ran a helpline to answer all our queries as to why the universe, and our minute, insignificant part of it is as it is. What arrogance to presume to have the ear of God! Oh, yeah, I forgot, the Bible's a helpline, isn't it?
I don't know how many times I have written in here that one can embody all the so-called Christian virtues while being an atheist, and it angers me that Christians usurp to themselves these virtues. Love and compassion for one's fellow humans, charity and faith ( not in any God, but in the innate goodness of one's fellow men )are human, not divine attributes.
They are far more likely to have originated as survival mechanisms than to have ben handed down to us by God, or any other god.
posted by
ariel70
on April 21, 2006 at 3:45 AM
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God really is love
He created a perfect world, without sickness or stress, but evil, disobedience, corrupted the perfection God made.
Every positive thing comes from the Lord, and every negative thing with a negative outcome is from Satan. God sometimes sends negative things our way, but His negatives have a purpose, and will, in some way, become positive.
You might want to read the book of Job. Job asked many questions of God in his trouble, too.
posted by
songbirdshafer
on April 21, 2006 at 2:53 AM
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Muser
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on April 20, 2006 at 8:18 AM
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Timmy, I have a rather different point of view. Of course it is my own, but
here it is for your consideration: I am always surprised that God gets the blame for everything that goes against us. Just as God is Love, He has an adversary who is evil, namely Satan whose avowed purpose is to destroy the thing God loves most - His creation. I think that God gave us free will; He doesn't make us love Him...He doesn't interfere with our desires, BUT He is always readily available when we call on Him to help us. I don't understand why I developed Parkinson's Disease at age forty-nine...it is progressing now. I don't blame God...I depend on Him to live one day at a time to help me conquer my fears of the unknown...the what ifs...I find a peace within from communion with Him that is deep and comforting. I can't explain it, but I'll never deny it!
I am sincere in telling you that I will keep your loved ones in my prayers,and you as well in your questioning of the big WHYs. I am glad you have a friend in Talion here on Blogit; he is a very wise, very kind man. He has a good heart...like you.
posted by
muser
on April 19, 2006 at 1:21 AM
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Talion
I think that I am the same, somewhat. We did attend church when I was young, but then it kind of got away. I think that I was a believer because I was afraid no to believe. In the back of my mind there was always that "what if"
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on April 18, 2006 at 7:22 PM
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Tim
My agnosticism isn't rooted in bitterness, anger, or revenge towards "God." Religion simply wasn't forced on me as a child, thus leaving me to make my own decision. When I look at the world, see the way things are, religion just doesn't add up. I think religion explains the unexplainable. It provides answers we as humans, often don't have. I must admit there's something extremely comforting in having the answers. When I'm confronted with these perplexing questions, the only answer that has ever made sense to me is, that's just the way things are. From there, I can decide what, if anything, can be done about them. I don't have to know everything. I don't need it to be all spelled out for me. So far, I've been able to deal with everything life has thrown at me, the good and the bad. I've never prayed nor asked "God" for anything. On the flip side, I'm not pissed off at "Him" when things go wrong either.
posted by
Talion
on April 16, 2006 at 12:45 AM
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