God's Plan

[andy-hughes]

Following on from the horrific news of a little boy killed by lightning -

I am genuinly intrigued to hread how any of our Christian contributors can begin to reconcile this tragedy with the notion that their 'loving' God, who clearly allowed it to happen, could let such a loss be felt by his parents and family.

What part of 'God's Plan' is working here?

[mibn2cweus]

//The nature of reality?
Wow! Don't tell me you know what it is!//

I know enough to know it would be a waste of anyone's time to explain to you anything and everything that you choose to poo poo in your attempts to smuggle your imaginary friend in through the back door as the 'creator of the universe'.

[naomi24]

Theland, 1905. Love never demands blood sacrifice.

[mibn2cweus]

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

[naomi24]

You and I seem to be missing something, mibs. Try as I may I just can’t see anything commendable - or necessary - about this blood sacrifice. I mean, you’d think the Almighty could have come up with a more palatable solution, wouldn’t you? Tut!

[Atheist]

17:46 Khandro.

[Atheist]

Khandro at 17:46

[Atheist]

I'm not able to post a reply for some reason; the text keeps disappearing......

[naomi24]

You’ve just posted. Is what you’re trying to post copied from elsewhere? If so that might be causing a problem. If not it’s odd that you can post to say you can’t post.

[Khandro]

Atheist //I'm not able to post a reply for some reason; the text keeps disappearing......//

Devine intervention ?

[Theland]

Very secretive MIBs.

[Khandro]

oops, Divine

[Peter Pedant]

// You and I seem to be missing something, mibs. //
yup sure am

did Naomi really say if God had been more like naomi then the world would be a far better place? yup looked as tho she did

ho hum - normal sunday on AB !

[Stickybottle]

god is moving in very mysterious ways in Italy and China today

[naomi24]

PP, I didn’t say that, but now you mention it ....

[Atheist]

Khandro, I did wonder about the hand of God! :-)
I think I used some forbidden characters.
I claimed that I wasn't a bigot, and I quoted Cambridge Dictionary's definition of the word.
"a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life."

[naomi24]

Atheist, AB would ‘star out’ words that it deems unacceptable but it wouldn’t prevent you from posting anything you want to post. Of course your post could subsequently be removed, but you wouldn’t be stopped from posting it initially. Try it again.

[Atheist]

Naomi. I used double marks (greater than, and less than) to bracket a section I was quoting. I suspect that threw everything wonky - all that showed up was the time of my post.

[Atheist]

I denied being a bigot, but I admitted that I disliked some people - those who harm sentient beings.

[naomi24]

Don’t know then. I wouldn’t have thought the symbols you used would have affected posting.

[pixie374]

I think they do. I have seen others say that if they use a greater or less than symbol, everything afterwards disappears. Atheist, try speech marks or slashes- it should work then.