Peruvian Earthquake

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Peruvian Earthquake

While it's terrible that so many people lost their lives I couldn't help but notice that one of the places worst hit was a church in Pisco where hundreds died while observing Mass.   How do you square that one with the idea of God?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6951836.stm 


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Easy.  Either God is not

Easy.  Either God is not omnibenevolent, or he is not omnipotent.


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Nor does he/she/it exist at

Nor does he/she/it exist at all.


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On that note, why do we view

On that note, why do we view God as a male?


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Well, as Richard Dawkins

Well, as Richard Dawkins pointed out, the Biblical god is aggressively male.


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xamination wrote: On that

xamination wrote:
On that note, why do we view God as a male?

 

because he was thought up by a bunch of men who couldn't believe, or stand, the fact that a woman could possibly exert power over them. 

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I mean, what is the theist

I mean, what is the theist answer to this?


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xamination wrote:

xamination wrote:
I mean, what is the theist answer to this?

 

Oh, that's easy: since he took them altogether, god likely made up for it be giving them a group rate discount for the heavenly amusement park.....

 

Never understood why theists even bother to come up with explanations for why theists died... to a theist, life is a line, and the after life is Disney land

 

"Hitler burned people like Anne Frank, for that we call him evil.
"God" burns Anne Frank eternally. For that, theists call him 'good.'


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I was just waiting for

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