Making Sense Of Suffering.

[Theland]

Next Sunday, virtually the whole nation will turn to and pray to God in remembrance of the 100 year commemoration of the first mechanised slaughter World War 1.

It takes our God to comfort us and focus our attention on our folly of killing each other.

What do you think?

[Theland]

Tried to put this in R & S but it went pear shaped! Sorry!

[ummmm]

I certainly won't be praying.

Remembering has nothing to do with any God.

[sherrardk]

God doesn’t enter into it for me.

[nailit]

//What do you think?//

Ive got a fairly good mental health worker at the moment....shall I pass ur number on?

//Next Sunday, virtually the whole nation will turn to and pray to God//
Really?
For Funks Sake!

[Theland]

MILLIONS will though.

[Mamyalynne]

Some may indeed pray.

Most will be thinking of those lost, relatives or not who sacrificed so much.

Commemoration and remembrance are across the board, not just a religious concept.

[Theland]

Nailit - why keep crossing swords and throwing down the gauntlet?
Totally unnecessary.

[douglas9401]

In 1918 young lads in the trenches may have called out to god or their mammies as their essence leaked into the mud.

In 2018 I'm just grateful that they had the stuff to fight for the future and let me post rubbish on t'internet in a lame tribute.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, millions across the nations will pray - that is their right.

[kvalidir]

I'll be remembering and imagining the suffering and loss and the freedoms that those people's sacrifice brought us but I won't be praying Theland x

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Making sense of" is a problem for the believer in a just God, Theland.

For a non-believer the problem is remembering that and working out how to avoid its repetition.

I would like to think that's work in progress. But I suspect i've chosen too optimistic a word.

[tonyav]

I don't think I'll be praying, mainly because I don't think that praying will bring my great uncle who died on the first day of the battle of the Somme back to life or his brother my other great uncle back from the bottom of the North sea ( along with the rest of the crew ) from the destroyer that he was on when it was sunk.

[Theland]

I get it. Never needed to though. Just sad that my thoughts about the loss due to mans folly does not include an appreciation of God.

[douglas9401]

God: creator and destroyer of all things.

I have a special place for your god and his works and it's not so heavenly.

Yours sincerely

Will (Free)

[ChillDoubt]

Funny then that god allows them to continue killing each other yet ignores their prayers year on year.
You’d have thought someone who gave up his only son for sacrifice might have put an end to such suffering by now.

Always reminds me of an internet meme which reads:
Q. Did you sleep well?

A. Like god during the Holocaust.

What a sicko.....

[vetuste_ennemi]

There's a far ruder version if you know the story of the competition between Elijah and the priests of Baal.

[-Talbot-]

It takes our God to comfort us and focus our attention on our folly of killing each other.

What do you think?







I think you don't think things through.

[nailit]

//Nailit - why keep crossing swords and throwing down the gauntlet?
Totally unnecessary//

Indeed Theland, so stop crossing swords and throwing down the gauntlet then! Totally unnecessary.

[Theland]

I don't.
If that's what you believe, show me?

[Theland]

A jury of ABers, PLEASE give your verdict.
Have I?