tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097791287581189604.post5761629925578661635..comments2023-03-29T15:03:30.224-05:00Comments on Aletheia: Did God Cause The Disaster in Japan?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16366537452692065482noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097791287581189604.post-81705821350246757082011-03-25T00:21:52.890-05:002011-03-25T00:21:52.890-05:00"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapie..."The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful." <br /><br />— Robert A. HeinleinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097791287581189604.post-42831984653692867512011-03-24T22:52:14.206-05:002011-03-24T22:52:14.206-05:00"A God who could make good children as easily..."A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!"<br /><br />-Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097791287581189604.post-86602426268284192112011-03-24T00:59:34.202-05:002011-03-24T00:59:34.202-05:00*Civilizations that endorsed religious philosophie...*Civilizations that endorsed religious philosophies such as Pantheism (i.e. Hinduism, Buddhism) worship a more benevolent force but their belief systems struggle with reconciling pain and suffering and events like what happened in Japan.<br /><br />Look at all the plagues during the dark ages under a Christian empire, your sophomoric attempt to reconcile Christian faith with the problem of evil have so many contradictions and defeaters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com