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Quote by: freefallife  I find it interesting that this thread gets so little response from the theists. But just to keep it alive
I recieved an email yesterday from a base chaplain. This is a quote from that correspondance.
Since I don't want to get into a philosophical debate with my base chaplain, I thought I would ask the questions I had for him here on this thread.
It seems to me that if this all powerful god who knows everything and can do anything he wants to do, as this chaplain contends, what could possibly be his reasoning behind the virus that causes AIDS, cancer or any other disease for that matter. I only bring up AIDS because it has NOT been in existance since the beginnings of humankind. Therefore, somewhere along the way, this all powerful god decided that we DIDN'T have enough death, pain and suffering on this planet and introduced or allowed the introduction of a virus that as of yet has a 100% lethality rate. The only answer in my opinion is that there does not exist any god that cares about the fate of the human species. |
This will only throw the thread off topic. The short answer will be, maybe god created AIDS to stop promescuity between heteros and slow the progression of homosexuality. While that may seem horrible on gods part, god gets a free ride when it comes to things he does. He is exempt from blame and anything he does is Just, no matter how unjust it seems to us. Our finite wisdom can not comprehend His infinte wisdom blah blah blah, gotta have faith blah blah blah, praise Jesus.
Remember, god was "just" when he destroyed Sodom & Gemmora(sp?).
You are right that theists avoid these types of threads because they don't have an answer. There is no rational answer as to why a god like the christian god would allow suffering from natural events that he could clearly control. Their best answer always seems to be, we can't understand gods plan. They may be satisfied with that answer, but obviously atheists aren't.