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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is how it happened to me. I had always since young adulthood questioned how bad things happened to good people and good things happened to bad people. It’s everywhere. Then my mom got terminal cancer at 60. And it just hit me like a ton of bricks, God is not going to stop this wonderful, faithful woman from dying. Even as she was telling me he had a plan and things happen for a reason. And I just wanted to scream at her “This is not a plan and it’s not happening for some divine reason!!!” I didn’t say that of course.

I decided there were 3 possibilities:

1. God is not omnipotent.
2. God is omnipotent and is just an a-hole.
3. There is no God.

I’m not sure which of the above is true. [/quote]

4. Your mom believed she was going to enjoy a great afterlife and that you would do well here on earth, and both of these things brought a lot of comfort to her (and might or might not be true). [/quote]

No. Even if what you say is true then 1,2 or 3 also has to be true. 4 is not an alternative to those. God either couldn’t save her, chose not to save her, or isn’t real. Which do you think?[/quote]

You're saying that death is the end, so that #4 is invalidated by 1, 2, or 3. PP's mom apparently didn't believe that. Take it up with pp's mom.[/quote]

This thread is for non believers. Go make your own thread where you can discuss flowery reasons why God lets 2 year olds die of brain tumors and lets 10 year olds live with sexual abusers. Maybe he is real, I don’t know. But he sure isn’t very benevolent if he is.[/quote]

+ 100.  And why the god people believe in at the same time as he's letting that little girl I knew die horrifically slowly of a brain tumor also "blesses" someone with finding their true love, or getting the job they always dreamed of.    Taking it a step further, I think it's a harmful worldview even if it only informs someone's attitude towards their life subtly enough that they just believe they are more deserving of god's blessing than the little girl in hospice.  It doesn't help us evolve as a human race.  [/quote]

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