"Also, keep up the stereotyping. It's really an impressive tool in defeating
your own cause." What cause? Everything is a conspiracy wrapped in an agenda hidden by conversion intentions to you people.
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as
citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under
God" - George H.W. Bush - That's only the 90th time I've seen you quote that in a comments section, Sitsu. It's like your world revolves around the off hand remarks of 1989. If Christians had as much anger for atheists for the offensive bullsh*t they've said and done to mock Christianity over the years, we'd make Islam look tame.
"So Hell is good how?" Hell is just consequence and repercussion. It's an eternal feeling of woe and lament for acting against God. If nothing has consequence, why act according to God's law?
"It's not vague
about the problem of evil. Please try to reconcile it. I bet you can't! Get
on topic!" I did, you danced around it. God's a better judge of good and evil than Korf41, the militant atheist debating on a YTMND comments section. Thus God allows what God deems good to exist, not what Korf41 deems good.
"Atheism doesn't prevent
you form doing any of this! Christianity does. You guys love to prove your
own religion wrong, it's fun!" We weren't talking about atheism. We were talking about whether it would be preferable if God created a world without hardship.
"Well wasn't that Heaven which you just desribed? Life after
death?" A spiritual life, not a physical life. It's not like a cartoon, where you go walk around on a cloud, pet unicorns and get chocolate from a chocolate tree. It's a lot more ephemeral than that, and there's a lot of speculation about exactly what to expect. The Bible is very vague about its description of heaven.
to relax in my beanbag chair and fire up the ol' X-Box. If I didn't work hard, I wouldn't appreciate the value of my possessions, relaxation time, or sense of accomplishment and well being.
"... YES." Then you'd also sacrifice any pleasure life could bring you, and nothing would have value. If all food tasted delicious to our subjective judgement as it stands now, no food would taste delicious. If the weather was always a sunny 75 degrees outside, we wouldn't even notice. Everything would be bland, everything would be scripted and predictable, life would have no purpose. Personally, I strongly believe that hard work is its own reward, not because I'm a masochist, but because it allows me
"What is the point of finding a cure of a disease a higher
power supposedly can cure?" Because we are here to make our own choices and live our own lives. Would you prefer life as a mindless automaton if it meant no one had to die, suffer, or work?
KORF41: "the problem of evil is REAL. The bible mentions evil. THUS, you
must account for GOD to be both OMNIPOTENT and ALL GOOD and somehow allow
evil to exist." FIRST of ALL, CALM the F*CK down and STOP with the IMPASSIONED TEENAGER random CAPITALIZED words TYPING. 1. God is omnipotent, you are not. Thus God is a better judge of good and evil than you are. 2. Free will is the alternative to living slavery, wherein all actions would be scripted to avoid us all struggle and hardship.
"So why are christian people suffering from cancer not
miraculously healed?" Because it is not in God's will that those individuals be cured, it is the will of the individuals who want to live. What we judge to be evil in the short term may ultimately all be part of God's plan to create a greater good. So, for example, a grandmother dies of breast cancer, her grandchildren grow up to find the cure. A woman is raped in an alley, she gives birth to a Nobel peace prize winner. Etc.
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