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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound very angry. [/quote]

I feel really sorry for you, OP. God doesn't promise we won't tested, only that we won't be overcome. I've met genocide survivors who have a healthier mindset than you.[/quote]

My 12 year son doesn't really believe in God either. He was born into abject poverty with no clean water and little food. As a young child, he watched other children die and many left behind. He realized early on that the only reason he didn't meet the same fate is because his first mother turned him over to an adoption agency. His words,  "if there was a God, he wouldn't let babies suffer and children lose their families". There's little I can say. I just listen. [/quote]

I think this is a very immature imaging of God.  God is not the big daddy in the sky.  He is far more both wonderful and horrible than that.[/quote]

Let's see you live as a 12 year old who suffered through poverty death, and then being torn apart from his family. I can already tell, from comparing these two posts, that this 12 year old boys is [i]lightyears[/i] ahead of you in emotional maturity: not because of his beliefs but because of the quality of his reflection and introspection, and how badly you look in comparison, with your judgment, lack of compassion, and bad spelling. I hope for your sake that you're not a grown adult, because I'm embarrassed for you.[/quote]

wow.  you completely misunderstood my post.  I guess I was too terse.  But I also think you have a very set idea about people who believe in God, and seem not to understand one could believe in God and also believe he is a monster.  You (because it is you who posted, not your DS) seem to believe everybody who believes in God believes he is some good person who helps people.  Perhaps, though, it is the opposite. [b] Perhaps God exists and he is pure evi[/b]l.[/quote]

Doubtful, or the world would be completely terrible.  In reality, only some of the world is terrible some of the time. This suggests no god because of the randomness. Believing in god makes some people feel good, but that doesn't make god real[/quote]

Perhaps.  Perhaps all our suffering, all our pain is completely pointless.  Just some randomness out of the bizarre fact that a universe exists.  But, yes, it makes me feel better to think that all this suffering has a cause, and it is evil.  [b]It feels less cruel to me that way.  And I don't think it hurts anything for me to believe this, even if it is not true[/b].[/quote]

I guess not, if it makes you feel better -- but it seems strange to feel better with a belief that god is cruel -- given that there are many instances of cruel things NOT happening[/quote]

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