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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am not religious, however, If God is good and the Devil is evil.
God needs to get to work. The Devil is working over time with no days off.
wryter2000
(46,076 posts)Edited to add: There are plenty of "Christians" who think that simplisticly.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)wryter2000
(46,076 posts)You know of a study that shows that?
Blues Heron
(5,939 posts)God: "I'll just snap my fingers and make shit happen" - yeah that's the ticket!
wryter2000
(46,076 posts)Id be late for the door in half an hour. Borrring.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)ret5hd
(20,512 posts)that thinks everything should go his way just because that's how it should be.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)That god has a plan. I responded that his god's plans always involve lots of dead people so count me out.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)I have yet to meet anyone who got out alive.
walkingman
(7,651 posts)you can tell my childhood indoctrination did not work.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,618 posts)Whether he exists or not.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)Devil worshipers are rare indeed.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,618 posts)I was thinking more along the lines of Trump voters.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)And using any and all information about the two entities at hand, Satan has clearly gotten a bad rap. The God of Abraham caused WAY more death and suffering to humanity than Lucifer EVER did.
Al Pacino put it well;
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He sat out the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, many millennia of slavery throughout the world, Stalin's gulags, the Armenian genocide... If he/she/it didn't intervene in any of those, it's pretty obvious we won't see it here, either.
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)Are you telling me we aren't Gawd's chosen country just like the bibull says??
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Also, if Gawd actually exists, he/she/it isn't going to bail out us mortals. BTW, you misspelled "BuyBull."
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)Thanks for correcting me lol
Roland99
(53,342 posts)It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe...can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has.
This god would then be a narcissistic, sadistic asshole
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)is part of God, eh?
Buddhist thought:
No Mind, No Buddha
No Buddha, No Mind
i.e., we are God/creator of the dream and we choose good or evil in Mind.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,470 posts)started the day I realized that other than as a convenient scapegoat, the "Devil" couldn't exist. For such a creature to exist would be a complete contradiction/mockery of the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent "God".
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)anything that happens on this world God allows or causes.
Under that theology, God either smites us or God allows it.
But yes the usual story is God has a plan and tragic or not you will suffer it.
COVID is part of the plan, that is why some of them line up in spite of the admonition against testing God.
Happy Hoosier
(7,375 posts)We are responsible to nothing after death. That is why it is incumbent upon us to do the best we can with the world and time we have.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)It's at death that these evil people will finally get what's coming to them. While they are alive, they get the good life and you get the struggle.
I stopped believing in some sort of Just God a long time ago. All I had to do was look around.