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[โ€“] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a cruel and demented mindset to justify children dying by claiming they deserve it, that they "brought it on themselves."

I'm not going to live for a being that causes so much suffering just because he wants some sort of glory. We'd put those people in prison if they were us, because it doesn't fit with our societal morals.

[โ€“] ssmid@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And this is what I was trying to tell you and so many people don't get: there is a distinction between God and human. People judge God as if he was human (or as if he was not God and only human more specifically) and as if he had not the right to give and take back what he gave.

And once more, HE didn't cause the suffering. If we did what we have been made for there wouldn't be any suffering, we would be infinitely happy. It was our choice all along, things like climate change only make it much more clear what has been true the whole time.

I get that not everybody wants to believe that. But I don't believe in a world with no purpose and no sense. A random occurence with no meaning. A universe which ends in singularity just to do the same thing over and over again.

Edit: Forgot the most important part on why pain and suffering is still a thing: We somehow need to make an informed decision on what we choose for eternity. Going our own ways and where it leads and going God's way. Gladly, it doesn't have to stay this way for very long, we will make the whole thing crash in just a few decades.