[Would God cause someone else to suffer for your benefit?]
If God cannot get your attention then he will pick maybe your child to suffer to get your attention.
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The one thing God WON'T do, apparently, is just show up and talk to someone. No, he'd rather murder innocents.
How much of an arrogant asshole do you have to be to believe God would screw an innocent person up just to get your attention? As if you're so damn important, you sick moron. It's always "Save the children! Save the children! For the love of God, save the children!" But it looks like Jennyann has news for these people: Children aren't important; children are just expendable pawns in God's quest for your soul. Such a loving guy, Jennyann's God.
Great. Apparently, when I was born with severe liver problems, God was trying to tell my parents something.
Okay, remind me again what's so wonderful about your god. He's "all-powerful" and yet either so limited in imagination, or so disgustingly evil that the only solutions he seems to be able to come up with are ones that involve pain or death. And this is a creature I'm supposed to worship? Even if he was real, I won't have anything to do with a being that is so immoral.
Yeah - because burning bushes are such hard work aren't they - it's so much more fun to cripple a child. I thought in the bible God was hardening the heart of Kings so the Israelites could slaughter them wholesale. Is God now hardening the hearts of atheists(?) so he can cripple their kids wholesale?
Even better than when I pointed out that God can't be very loving when he causes natural disasters, one of which had killed a friend of mine's mom, to which a fundie answered that they're necessary for the End Times, "which by the way is far worse".
You know, that makes no sense to me, because then he's trying to get so many people's attention, that it would overlap at points where He tries to get your attention while making you suffer to get other people's attention.
John: The Mafia was my first thought also. The comparison is just too apt.
Your god is utterly inept at any kind of effective communication. Even when the devout reach some kind of consensus that a divine message has been received, usually in the form of some weird shit like oil smeared statues, it's so unclear that people usually have widely differing notions of what it's supposed to say. The guy apparently can't even send an unambiguous, coherent message and you think he created the universe???
God could get my attention much more easily than crippling my child.
Or he could just send Jesus down to say, "Hey, Alena, how's it going? Look, uh, we've seen that you don't really believe in us at all, so... It'd be swell if you could try to do that from now on. I really don't want to die on a cross again. That was painful. So, yeah. Could you try to start believing? Thanks."
Why can't God get my attention? He's GOD , right? If he can create the universe in 6 days, why can't he send me a certified letter?
But if your god would pick [me] to suffer“, how would I know if he tries to get my attention instead of the attention of one of my parents? Or the attention of anyone else from my family or friends? Or some of the politicians that are currently in the government of my country? How does one distinguish between these?
That seems like a really ineffective sort of communication your omnipotent god has there
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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