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If a god existed that cared about humans, wouldn't that make life ultimately fair?
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
8 Answers
- 8 years ago
God didn't make the world so that we could be happy. (Shocker.)
That's what he made heaven for. (Yes, I think that pretty much everyone is gonna end up in heaven. Sadly, maybe even Hitler. I don't know yet.)
God made this world so that we could have free will. More importantly, he made it so that everyone could have free will. Most importantly, if everyone has free will, that means that everyone is responsible for both how the world is and how the world will be in the future.
So actually, you're right; if a God existed that cared about humans, that would make life ultimately fair. Sadly, since God does exist, and more importantly, since He made a world in which our choices are all that matter, this means that collectively, this hostile unequal universe is exactly what we are collectively making of it, what we have collectively made of it. It may not be what the children deserve, but it's a world we each take responsibility for, within our means within our circumstances, whether we like it or not.
And guess what else? This is exactly what secular humanists keep trying to say, too! That we should all be striving for the better life, be striving to actually end unfairness, be striving to be the servant leader bending to help the poor, oppressed, depressed, downtrodden, sorry sods of life. In short, be striving to humanize everyone.
The humanists just didn't realize that it was the Christians (along with various other religious people) who were saying it first.
Source(s): Life - Loosey™Lv 78 years ago
Yeah. Life is unfair. What you have to hope for is that life is unfair in your favor. If god existed there'd be no point to corporeal life, if such a thing as a disembodied spirit existed. We could be disembodied spirits too. Or doesn't the universal establishment cater to humans when it comes to disembodiment?
- 8 years ago
I've given up trying to understand God's lack of morals and reason to let us suffer the day to day things we have to go through.. Even when I believed in him more, things were still bad... Life is very unfair to the simple people who live paycheck to paycheck...
- Anonymous8 years ago
For now on Life is ultimately fair. Happy?
- 8 years ago
Yes, I dont know why a god would create us to automatically be born with sin, especially if we are created in his image. That would make god a sinner and a hypocrite. I used to believe in god, not so much these days.
- rainbowLv 48 years ago
I see you got two of the more complete Christ's robot SS troops on this one. With them it's scripture and nothing but scripture, so help you scripture. Fqn nauseating.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
perhaps you don't understand the Bible and who Jesus is.
Here's a summation:
THE CONTRACT
God is 3 personages, Jesus is God Himself; God the Son, & took on humanity, coming as a man to save us. Satan orchestrated a contract with sin with Adam in the Garden of Eden. Since that time, sin passes through man, therefore, Jesus was born of a virgin in order to save us of our sins & get us out of the contract. God worked out legal grounds, through Abraham, in order to save us & pour the sins of humanity on to Jesus on the Cross. Roughly 2000 years after Abraham was asked to kill / sacrifice his son, God sent His Son, on the same spot, to die for us. A man (Adam) put us in sin, a man (Jesus) gets us out of the contract
- 8 years ago
god only cares about white ppl cause their christians.
everyone else espcially jews and muslims can eat dirt.