I guess I wouldn’t make a very effective God. The real
God, if there is one, makes certain that the laws of nature ruthlessly afflict
anyone who happens to have bad luck, for example inheriting certain bad
mutations, or happens to get a contagious disease. Would you be able to do
this? I couldn’t do this. I would be unable to resist helping those who suffer
and who beg for help. I would not be able to be as cruel as religious people
think God is. I just couldn’t do it. I would be too much of a bleeding heart.
You probably would be too.
That is, I would be more like Jesus and less like God.
I understand the argument that God lets people suffer
because God expects other humans to come to the rescue. But this argument has
many exceptions. What about the situations where nobody is available to help?
What about the situations when there is no way to help? In these cases, only
God can help, and he does not.
Oh, and of course, a competent God would have to send to
Hell anyone who got their doctrine wrong.
Oh well. You can’t have a bleeding-heart God running the
world, I guess.
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