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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day- God seems like an a$$.

Like who tortures children with cancer to teach their parents a lesson?  Who decides that giving miscarriages to parents who want kids is a great test in faith? Or gives the wealthy even more power and wealth during a pandemic. Or takes away moms from innocent kids through cancer as a lesson in love?

Why give so much pain if you are omniscient and loving?  It doesn’t make sense. If we are supposed to believe in this and worship this- it is by default an abusive relationship.  It’s like being with a boyfriend that hits you, rapes you, tortures you and then says- I do this out of love!!!! I hurt you to test your faith- and if you don’t worship me I will make it worse after you die but while you are alive, it’s going to be pretty awful anyway.

Oh, and on top of that, we’re broke. [/quote]
It might help you to read [i]When Bad Things Happen to Good People[/i] by Harold Kushner. It addresses a lot of your questions.[/quote]

Bubble gum pop psych nonsense won’t “help” that person.[/quote]

People who are desperate to believe, will believe almost anything.[/quote]
The book addresses - from a place of faith - the concept of God and the reality of pain/loss/bad things. PP asked why a loving God would cause those things to happen and this book addresses how religious people struggle with that same question. If PP is sincere in wanting to understand why a religious person is religious in the face of bad things in the world, this book will help answer that question. If PP is just being rhetorical to try to dunk on religion, that seems like a waste of time and energy, but whatever. You do you.[/quote]

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