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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lost both my parents when I was young. Religious people have told me that God called them home, that he has a bigger plan, that my strength from dealing with these losses is a gift. Bullshit. I needed my parents. So many people have both parents well into their lives. My children will never know their grandparents. [b]Why would god do this to me?[/b] I was raised religious and both parents were religious until their deaths. I just don't believe anymore. [/quote]

Under these circumstances, it's a lot easier to assume that there is no God than to try to figure out why a supposedly good god would be so obviously cruel.[/quote]

I think there are roughly 3 paths:
- still believing god is good and benevolent, but we can't understand their reasons
- god is a a pretty vengeful, angry, and powerful god that we let down, and thus terrible things happen (most religions pre organized religion tended toward this idea)
- we're all dust in the wind, there are no gods, and stuff just happens because that's life and those are our cards
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I'd add a fourth, which is sort of a combination of one and two above:  God is both benevolent and vengeful, wielding power of good and evil, depending on our actions and his mood.[/quote]
Or that God doesn't kill anyone and doesn't wish for anyone to suffer and die. God does not "need" any of our loved ones in heaven. Life on earth requires death and suffering, it is quite literally in the fabric of nature. God brings relationship, meaning and transformation from death/suffering. Out of death we are transformed into new and everlasting life. Not just when we physically die, but also daily as we fail, accept our powerlessness to control the world around us, and learn to live in joy and love. [/quote]

Iow, god does only the good stuff and has no power over the bad stuff

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