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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (922613)	2/22/2016 4:16:11 PM
From: gronieel2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577592

"...I don't see how that takes any level of critical thinking. It's really easy to deny what is unseen or easily misunderstood, then arrive at a nihilistic conclusion like "Oh it must be random chance."..." Right Tenny....if you can't understand something then God did it. Make up an invisible bogeyman ...that's critical thinking for sure. God is then responsible for everything ...you don't have to worry about it. Oh and don't forget to pay...God needs the money!

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (922613)	2/23/2016 6:35:19 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577592

I never said that. Well you have used words like "cynical" and "calloused" in the context...no matter. Yeah, I get it. "How can a loving God allow tragic circumstances to happen?" It's an age-old question that has been asked for thousands of years and has been answered in many different ways. I have read several strained, unconvincing attempts... Your line of argument is to deny that said loving God could ever exist, then just conclude that by default, these tragic circumstances are just the result of random chance. I don't see how that takes any level of critical thinking. It's really easy to deny what is unseen or easily misunderstood, then arrive at a nihilistic conclusion like "Oh it must be random chance." Again, I didn't say it did. There are many other reasons to believe that the God described in Christianity or any other religion for that matter, defies critical thinking. I just used a religious human response to natural disasters as an example of how such religions defy logic....the scriptures provide fertile ground for massive skepticism. Al