Banzai
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Why does God allow natural disasters?

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
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01-21-2010, 12:33 PM #2 (permalink)
My911GT2993

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Banzai this is a very controversial subject.
If your an aetheist you do not beleive in God, and if you do then the 'lord works in mysterious ways'....


01-21-2010, 12:42 PM #3 (permalink)
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Aw. You make me feel bad for posting

dont feel bad

01-21-2010, 01:03 PM #4 (permalink)
Louis

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The answer to natural disasters and disease is actually real simple. We need to die somehow, were already pushing overpopulation in many parts of the world. Death is important and necessary to human survival, in certain countries I think war would even be justified for the greater good. Life is not sacred, its meaningless, even Haiti meant nothing statistically, with billions of people on the world you could kill 10 million and not have a thing to worry about, more people would take there place in terms of production and those people could actually eat instead of starve.

Thats just my view, I know its different when its a loved one you lose and I do sympathize with people coping with loss and issues which arise from natural disasters, particularly emotional issues.

01-21-2010, 01:07 PM #5 (permalink)
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?"

I'm someone who wants to believe in God. I did, until about age 10-11, and it gave me great comfort and memories that are good and still with me. But then in my own less sophisticated way the thought behind Hume's words above sort of haunted my belief. For me, the "mysterious ways" response that lamely explains the contradiction is a fine, maybe quintessential example of a cop-out.
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01-21-2010, 01:11 PM #6 (permalink)
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The answer to natural disasters and disease is actually real simple. We need to die somehow, were already pushing overpopulation in many parts of the world. Death is important and necessary to human survival, in certain countries I think mass murder would even be justified for the greater good. Life is not sacred, its meaningless, even Haiti meant nothing statistically, with billions of people on the world you could kill 10 million and not have a thing to worry about, more people would take there place in terms of production and those people could actually eat instead of starve.

Thats just my view, I know its different when its a loved one you lose and I do sympathize with people coping with loss and issues which arise from natural disasters, particularly emotional issues.

But if you were in charge of say an ant farm and the ants were reproducing too fast, would you flood the farm or seperate the queen from the other ants to slow the population growth? Since you could just as easily do either.
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01-21-2010, 01:37 PM #7 (permalink)
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Death is important and necessary to human survival, in certain countries I think mass murder would even be justified for the greater good. Life is not sacred, its meaningless, even Haiti meant nothing statistically, with billions of people on the world you could kill 10 million and not have a thing to worry about, more people would take there place in terms of production and those people could actually eat instead of starve.

Wow. You have a very nihilistic view of the world. While I agree that we are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, our lives do have meaning to those around us. While I don't believe tha

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