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Alageisia
Alageisia asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 10 years ago

Do you hate it when people say god ain't responsible for evil?

Here's a little scenario of me being god:

If I were omnipotent, i certainly wouldn't allow famines, holocausts and wars to happen, otherwise i wouldn't be benevolent. Well, anyways, since i'm so omnipotent, why not leave it up to humans to solve these problems? Oh sure i'll just sacrifice tons of poor souls to suffer for those incompetent little creatures to finally get around to saving them in several nevers. They've been doing such a fine job of it, so why not?

And of course, it doesnt matter if they die :) since life on earth doesn't matter! It's heaven you dear christians are goin' to. Those North Koreans dyin' by the truckload from executions/starvation would just go to hell too since they don't believe in me. Or even heard of me for that matter.

WHAT? Discontinue all the funds that go to religion? What for??? Sonny Christ, of course building monuments and chapels to worship me is far more important than helping the cancer-ridden and starvin' africans! And btw, a part of those funds do go to the salvation army! like.. err... 5%?

Besides, these churches are fundamentally pivotal to the running of the world. It's hardly armchair ratiocination that providing people seeking pusillanimous solace and self-reassurance in the purported heaven/after life is far more important than the people who are about to lose their lives!

As for gay people, it must've have been one of my very omnipotent and omniscient oversights that they even exist! All men are children of mine. They were born with variations, and have been living hell on earth, so i must allow my fellow disciples to be misled into denying them any modicum of happiness and then send them all to hell in err... hell. Hey, omnipotent people make mistakes too, so i'm not to blame for those variations, so let satan have gay barbeque.

Alright, mates, ima sign off for now. What? it's 2011 ALREADY? I've gotta get ready to kill everyone on earth next year! toodles.

(And duh, I don't believe in the alleged apocalypse, in fact, i predicted a ripe crop of apocalypse-related material prior to 2008, before i discovered the magical internet)

There's plenty more which i could cough up. But i'm pretty sick(cool, a pun) and tired of this. . Now tell me por favor, why aint god responsible for evil? Theists, please do answer me, i have been offensive to your fairy god mother, now it's your turn to return the favour in kind.

Here's some stuff you can bash me for:

I'm Chinese(no squinty eyes though)

I'm GAY (oh joy)

I'm atheist(duh)

I'm a sixteen year old air head(we all are)

Update:

Good lord.... I just realized that i made a wall of text. Oops

Update 2:

Yeah i don't have squinty eyes. Which i'm glad for.

And being gay isn't a choice. sigh.

Update 3:

Dear halfadoltz, did you even answer my question? besides giving silly facts from the nursery book you call the bible

Update 4:

To fried shoelaces, hmm, appetizing. Anyways, if god really is omnipotent, couldn't he just kill off satan and be done with it? and ain't satan a fallen angel? Heaven's supposed to be a realm where no sin exists. For an angel to commit a sin is a complete paradox

Update 5:

Obviously everyone was sixteen once, a toddler could tell me as much. It's hardly an argument that 80 year old seniors should sit at the kiddie table coz they were once 5

Update 6:

So it turns out that i'm not omnipotent? Oh well, though i sorta enjoyed being all-powerful.

Update 7:

Moans. I expected a real debate. But these replies(which aren't very numerous) are plain lame. Guess i got this question up on an intelligent-theist dry spell.

Update 8:

Well, eve got tricked by a snake. She's supposed to be totally gullible, being in eden and all. What sorta omniscient god wouldn't see the snake coming. Besides, it hardly seems fair that adam, and the entire human race has to suffer for the mistake(which is the equivalent of a toddler being goaded into eating some sweets from a stranger). Isn't that a bit against christian teachings? Anyways, i like how god made eve from adam's rib. Probably means that adam's the prototype and eve is the improved version

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    He's not. Satan is. As well as the fall of Adam.

    Source(s): http://wp.me/1MDSj
  • halfadozen1984
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    In response to your questions:

    1. The people that have never heard of God will receive a chance to accept Him before final judgment.

    2. You are condemning churches for constructing places to to congregate and time with those like minded? The church I was raised in does take the donations and splits it up into different areas.

    3. Homosexuality is condemned in the Bible as a sin.

    As for the stuff to bash you on:

    Being Chinese: So what you're still a human deserving respect.

    Being Gay: That is your choice and it's not like you're going to make me Gay.

    Atheist: Once again, your choice.

    Being 16: Any one 17+ was 16 also.

    Reply to Kakashitz: You wanted answers to your questions. I gave you answers according to my beliefs. If you just want people to argue with or disrespect feel free to take your anger out on me. It doesn't bother me. But, how can you win an argument if I refuse to argue with you?

    Source(s): hd
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    ESV: 7 I style easy and create darkness, I make wellbeing and create calamity, i'm the LORD, who does a number of those issues. quite a few translations have this wording. for this reason it is going to become a query as to what precisely, in what way, that's that He creates evil, for actually on the evil ones heads, evil shall come, and calamity befalls many societies in this cutting-edge device of issues. i admire you statements on your final paragraph approximately "something terrible . . ." because it additionally says quite a few places the calamities of the righteous are many, yet by all of them God brings the only one, if no longer now, then contained in the resurrection.

  • Mister Chartreuse
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    Satan was made up as a complete cop-out - relieving the 'all powerful' God of any actual responsibility for anything.

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  • PaulCyp
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    If you were omnipotent, how would you avoid famines in a world where 15% of the people consume 85% of the goods?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    God isn't real, so no!

    The Bible does say that God controls the devil to do evil things though, I read the entire Bible.

  • Jerri--on island time, mon.
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Ha! Caught you in a lie! Chinese but no squinty eyes? Can't happen. Jeez, I just thought....whut if the Great Deleter get hold of this?

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