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Higher Education · #9 10-31-2009, 10:26 PM

I agree with most of you that organized religion is a poison. It seems to deter and hurt more people than it brings and helps. However, atheists always confuse me when they ask "If God exists, and is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, then why is there pain and suffering in the world?" As thedutchiecouple said it,

If god really has power on the world, why do we face poverty, murder, war, flesh eating diseases, cancer, global warming, child abuse, dictatorship, racism and sexism, slavery.. the list goes on and on.
Why havnt any of these critical issues changed? Why hasnt god saved any of them?

I don't agree with the logistical implications of this type of question. It assumes that God views love in the same context as the person, most of the time an atheist, asking the question. How can one judge an omniscience God with any other set of knowledge besides an omniscient one unless God reveals himself unto that person? Furthermore, if we cannot do this, because we definately cannot, then how can we justify assigning expectations to God about how he should run the world if we are not omniscient ourselves?

Simply put, if love was a box of crayons, then what makes your box of crayons better than God's? They're not, he has a superior brand name and more colors. Whatever shades and colors he uses in the coloring book, this big place we call the world, are the best. That's not to say he drew murderers and and deadly diseases with his crayons. He used his crayons to allow his characters in his coloring book to make their own choices. He gave them choice, or free will. Whatever people do with that free will is up to them. How can one have love without choice anyways? God allows us to chose to follow him or not. If we want to be bad we can. If we want to use or crayons instead of his, we can, but the picture won't be as pretty as it would if we allowed him to color it.

Don't most responsible people, even if reluctantly, allow their kids to drive a car once they reach an appropriate age? Don't those people also realize that their kids could be killed in an instant in an accident? Don't they love their kids? Using the logic of the original question I responded to, no, they don't. That's obviously not true though, they do love their kids. They are allowing them to take the risk of being in an accident to go hang out with friends or to get places faster in a car. They are giving them a choice, or allowing them to use their will freely, hence the term "free will".