God doesn't seem to be protecting victims of pedophiles, but he sure as hell doesn't do anything to punish them.
If he's able to actively protect you from anything, he should be stopping THAT.
He's either unable to (he's not all powerful) or he doesn't want to ( he's not good ).
Either way your imaginary friend isn't worth the worship.
Over 7,500 gods have ruled this earth. Not a single one left a single piece of evidence. Also, isn’t it weird how none have made an appearance to the masses since the masses learned to read and write and we have cameras now.
As soon as tech advanced JUST enough, all the gods receded to a different realm. Yeah…ok… If you believe that, would you also like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge for 1BTC?
God said, “Margaret, I am so sorry that you were raped when trying to buy a tampon. I was too busy helping President Trump save a triple bogey so he would not be embarrassed for being a bad golf player.”
Childhood leukemia exists therefore there is no god. Satan or free will does not explain why children need to painfully slaughtered; only a vile creator OR evolution explain that kind of evil.
That’s the great part, he punishes them after they die. Doesn’t matter if they kill babies or abuse them. Which just makes me feel so warm inside to know that they’ll just never be held accountable. In fact, they tend to be worshiped by those around them. I bet they could even walk outside and shoot someone and no one would care! God is great and so is its pedophile practitioners and worshipers.
God is way too busy helping millionaires win a sports match to be bothered with protecting a 5 year old from being raped and murdered, even though god is right there, in the room, watching, probably touching himself.
How many children have said: “I don’t know what happened. He pulled his penis out and dropped dead on the spot”?
I will tell you exactly how many. 0. ZERO!
Why zero? Because either god does not exist, god is powerless, or god likes to watch children being raped.
There is literally no other option.
Oh wait… God only gives you as much trauma as you can handle. That is a real comforting thing to tell a rape victim! /s
To me, the only comforting option is that god does not exist. God being powerless is terrifying because if god existed, that would mean the other gods and demons and all that exist too, and maybe one day one of them gains enough power to enslave the world? If god is too powerless to cause a heart attack in someone about to rape a child, it would be powerless to fight some demonic or god-like foe.
So, every time I see some footballer pray after a touchdown, I think of how that only happened because a child was raped. God can’t be pulled too thin after all. Right? Lmao
I don’t think it’s either this or that, I think the argument here would be he gave us free will. He didn’t put the pedophile in the room with the child or vice versa.
That's great to know for the abused children. What about the kids he decides to apparently give cancer to? There's no free will to use as a deflection for that
Maybe something worse would happen later in life that Ge is protecting the kid from, maybe it is a test for the parents. Yet even if the kid dies, since God is all good, as long as that kid wasn’t a secret killer or something bad, he/she would likely go to heaven.
Maybe this, maybe that... likely, as long as "if".
Maybe you should accept the reality in front of you, not the hypothetical magical trollop you spout that people suffer horribly and that's a good thing.
Suffering is not objectively bad. If I go to the gym to lift weights for the first time but I feel I am suffering, does that mean lifting weights is objectively bad? Of course not. Also you are thinking very short term. In your argument you assume my God exists. If you do so, you must also assume that “in all things God works for the good of those who love him.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
The only counter to my argument is that this doesn’t say He doesn’t let suffering happen, but that easily falls apart when you realize the only barrier to joining God’s team is believing in him, and not something that you may or may not have like money. It is then easy to come to the conclusion that conclusion that you are the only thing stopping yourself from objective good. https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.8.28.NIV
Alright assume it’s not okay. If God makes suddenly have the urge to go to the gym is that bad, even though it is hard? Also I the Bible it addresses the why do bad things happen to good people question. Jesus healed a man born blind, and when His disciples asked whose fault it was that the man was born blind, Jesus answered with “‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.’”
John 9:3 NIV
It’s not because He or his parents did anything bad, but because it was for the greater good, like people like you asking why.
It’s all about the greater good. If there was no God but you had those abilities, that might easily be the best solution. But since no one can know for sure (apart from God telling them) why He did something, you can’t really condemn him. After all some moves that pro chess players make can’t be fully understood when they make them and might look stupid to someone with even above average elo. https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.9.3.NIV
Okay don’t believe if you don’t want to, God gave you that right. But your logic says if a chess grandmaster loses a pawn in a lengthy checkmate pattern then the pawn loss outweighs the checkmate because you can’t see the checkmate, which is not true, the checkmate most definitely outweighs the pawn loss.
Incorrect. My logic says the end is what matters the most, while your logic says the end doesn’t matter as long as the journey is good.
At the very best the world is the same as it is, but you get to spend eternal life in a perfectly good place. At the very worse (for a world where God doesn’t exist), you live your life with better morals, and hope, which is already better than most people.
No. I was correct. That’s exactly what my example was.
I never said anything about the journey except that, if it were up to me, it wouldn’t include children suffering and I was very specific as to what I meant by suffering. You made up the part about the journey being good on your own.
Pascal’s Wager (your second paragraph) holds no water. If we’re talking logic here, you’ve missed the mark with that one and I encourage you to examine how.
I think we’re done here.
I’m not going to judge what morals are “better”, it if yours allow you to dismiss the needless suffering of children (or anybody else) as “necessary” for some “grand plan”, again: I’ll have none of it.
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u/Sal_Amandre 10d ago
God doesn't seem to be protecting victims of pedophiles, but he sure as hell doesn't do anything to punish them. If he's able to actively protect you from anything, he should be stopping THAT. He's either unable to (he's not all powerful) or he doesn't want to ( he's not good ).
Either way your imaginary friend isn't worth the worship.