<We all must die, and we will certainly die of
something. No death bringing affliction will be
any more "fair" than another. God didn't create
"good" and "bad" diseases. I believe He created
a world ruled by the eternal circle of birth,
growth, decay, death, and rebirth. It's that
simple, and any values we assign to the
particulars of this process are our creation, not
His.>
I feel sorry for, as well as impatient with, Christians, or other deists, who want so desperately to affiliate with a benevolent and omnipotent deity worthy of worship, one who might even someday allow them to reside with their lost loved ones in an actual paradise that they find themselves taking positions such as that "any values we assign to the particulars of the process are our creation, not His."
Can you not see, Rick, that you are skewing your thinking around tortuously to enable yourself to remain in a comfortable but truly irrational mental state? I don't mean arational, I mean irrational.
You mention diseases, comparing them fairly with the rusting of any machine, and deny that the concept of "fairness" should apply to the laws of entropy. Which I certainly can agree with, since in order for diseases, or rust, to be reasonably called "unfair," one would have to believe there was an entity who was the conscious agent of the unfairness. Not believing that any God set up this painful system, I could hardly do that.
<We all must die, and we will certainly die of something. No death bringing affliction will be any more "fair" than another.>
Well, you know I could describe death after death bringing affliction, with sufficient time and strength millions upon millions of them, deaths from torture, deaths of children at the hands of their parents, or at the hand of Dr. Mengele, deaths from preventable starvation, deaths from intentional neglect, deaths that provided entertainment, deaths from overwork, deaths from state persecution--- lingering, cruel, intentionally agonizing deaths...which, if you believe in an omnipotent and omniscient deity, force you to the inescapable conclusion that your deity must necessarily be what we mere humans call a "monster." But deists typically turn away from the logically undeniable by lulling their minds to sleep with such frighteningly alienated statements as
"whereas we look at the car's entropy dispassionately, we view the failure of human bodies through a lens of emotion."
and
"We all must die, and we will certainly die of something. No death bringing affliction will be any more 'fair' than another."
and
"He created a world ruled by the eternal circle of birth, growth, decay, death, and rebirth. It's that simple,"
and most horrifying of all,
"any values we assign to the particulars of this process are our creation, not His."
Rick, if a God created the hideous particulars of the cruel processes I have barely touched upon, and assigns no values to them, why in God's name are you worshipping Him? Do you not assign values to them?
I think I do know why, though. I think it is because it makes you feel good. |
