Wake Up
What has to happen in order for God not to be loving or impotent?
We say God can heal, yet 12 year girls can die of cancer, yet God is still loving.
We say God can effect the human heart, yet 500,000 die in Rwanda, yet God is loving.
People drowned in New Orleans praying to God yet God is loving.
We say God’s love is not our love yet we use our concept of love to make that determination.
Wake the fuck up.
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So if God is impotent or not loving, then why give a shit about what happened in Rwanda or that little girls die of cancer. Why give a shit? And why write a blog about it? Why care that people think God is loving? What would motivate you to even want people to “wake the fuck up”?
I don’t understand your question?
Why would God have to be loving or potent, for me to care about humanity? If it is because: he made all living things and if I am loving then he is loving? If this is true then what about the things which are unloving, say male lions killing lion cubs. Does this make him unloving?
If he just made humanity loving then at what point in the evolutionary cycle did we become altruistic?
Arguement from anger is no arguement.
What motivates me to want people to “wake the fuck up” is we are moere concerned about our ownselves getting into heavan than leaving the world a better place than we found it. A theistic God wanting communion with us in heaven removes the onus from us to take care of all we have “The here and Now.”
ccc, are you trying to say you only care for your fellow humans because it’s what God wants, not what you want?
Leland,
I had a similar conversation with friends today (and pretty much every day) about how the focus on heaven keeps many Christians from affecting change in the life we have here. My (theistic) friend said “Most of the time I feel like I have more in common with the atheist or agnostic who wants to do something good in the world than with a lot of Christians who think this world is evil.”
A lot of my writings also garner reactions like the one above. You might like aspects of my blog (http://bdkeller.wordpress.com) Peace.
I’ve read your stuff Brett and I enjoy your comments. Nothing like a free mind to embrace Christianity.