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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe in a higher power and intelligent design, but not that God is ever loving. If that's true, explain the Holocaust.[/quote]

Read Lord of the Flies to explain the holocaust.  [/quote]

What does Lord of the Flies have to do with an ever lasting God?
-NP[/quote]

It has to do with how evil comes into the world. Through us.[/quote]

That doesn't answer the question of why an ever loving God would allow that kind of evil to happen.
Or are you saying God uses human monstrosity to teach us good from evil?
[/quote]

No,

I'm saying that God is a positive force that humans choose to follow or not. He doesn't control things at that level on earth. We bring God into the world or not.[/quote]

God doesn't control things?  I thought people believed that he was omnipotent and reigned forever in heaven where you'd go when you died if you followed his rules.  And you didn't follow his rules, you'd go to hell for eternity. [/quote]

Nope. Have you studied mainstream religions at all?[/quote]

Yep. I was a long time member of a mainstream christian religion and studied religion a lot in my path to atheism.  Still, I am interested to hear from pp why they asked that question and if they know of mainstream Christian religions that do not believe the God is omnipotent and reigns "forever in heaven where you'd go when you died if you followed his rules.  And you didn't follow his rules, you'd go to hell for eternity."  That is part the creed of mainstream christianity.

Now maybe a lot of people don't actually believe that stuff, but they say it - some of them every Sunday if they go to church.

Non-Christian religions have different beliefs. But many are not mainstream, at least in the US.  Perhaps pp was referring to them?[/quote]

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