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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (2868)10/29/2000 5:41:10 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
I would be interested in hearing why you find the proposition that God exists to be so hard to accept.

E has already explained much of what I think about this question, but I will add a little.

It doesn't take much observation of the world to conclude that while it is a magnificent place, it is also a very harsh place for most of those that live on it. In the natural state this harshness is magnified enormously; most movement away from the cruelty of nature has been initiated by the worldly desires of humans. The innocent suffer and die, often horribly, often in ways that do not have anything to do with free will or human choice. We are asked to believe in a God who can cure at will, but generally chooses not to, except at occasional and apparently capricious intervals.

From this I see only three possible conclusions: either the design is flawed, the design is deliberately cruel, or there is no design at all. The third seems the most sensible, and certainly the most attractive.
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