Is God To Blame?

[goodlife]

Good thinking people everywhere ask this question. And with good reason, because for centuries the human family has suffered so much from horrible wars, food shortages, poverty, crime and disease. Injustice and oppression have caused a great amount of grief too. Quite often, innocent people suffer through no fault of their own. Is all of this proof that God does not care about what happens to us?

Is there any genuine hope for a better world, a world where people really enjoy life on earth to the full, free from all these troubles?

[Buenchico]

>>> Is all of this proof that God does not care about what happens to us?

No - but it's possibly quite good proof the he/she/it doesn't exist!

[drmorgans]

If there was a nuclear war and humankind was wiped out most life would continue happily without us. Then there wouldn't be an believers, undecideds or non-believers. Does that mean that G/god would cease to exist?

[andy-hughes]

God is not to blame.

You have to exist to be responsible for anything.

[Arksided]

Is God female... that'd explain a lot.

[Mozz71]

Blaming some fictitious deity is basically humanity refusing to take responsibility for their own balls ups.

[Arksided]

I agree Mozz blaming everyone and anything but themselves seems to be the norm these day's.

Those blooming Aliens tusk

[youngmafbog]

No 'God' is not to blame. He/she/they do not exist. Any of them.

[Arksided]

... before you dismiss everything let me keep hold of Angels

[Deskdiary]

I’m enjoying life, and that’s got naff all to do with something that doesn’t exist.

I genuinely think people who believe in god have a mental illness. It’s ok to believe in stuff as a child, like Santa, to to believe in something where (a) the very premise is absurd, and (b) there’s not a single jot, nothing, of proof, is just nuts.

[nailit]

//Is God To Blame?/

YES!

Where did God get his morals from?
Ive got my own, and they are better than his.
I dont kill people, or steal or rape.

Your god is a demon in most right thinking peoples eyes.

[nailit]

Can any religionist tell me where 'God' got his morals from please?

[nailit]

The morals of the Abrahamic god are questionable at best.
Sickening at worst.

[Mozz71]

Should've read "Your god is a fairytale in most right thinking peoples eyes" Nailit.

[nailit]

//Should've read "Your god is a fairytale in most right thinking peoples eyes" Nailit. //
Maybe, but the point that I was trying to get across was the fact that the god of the Old Testament is a demon in anyones eyes.
Still fairy tale though.
About as believable as Baa Baa Black Sheep.....

[nailit]

How anyone believes that the God of the Bible is a moral creature is absolutely beyond me.
And anyone who defends such filth is beyond me.

[nailit]

Has anyone in this thread actually read the Bible in its entirety?

[nailit]

People read ABOUT the Bible than actually read it....

[Old_Geezer]

People don't wish to bore themselves to death reading that religiously; they, as children, tend to adopt the beliefs of their parents whom they trust.

Belief in a spiritual aspect is not a mental disability. Watch the many NDE testimonies on YouTube (suggest skipping any with a major religious beliefs as they grate and bore).

General view from them is that you do find yourself no longer connected to your past body, that the core you is of the spirit and that there are others you meet that are more advanced than you at this point.

Much food for thought.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh and to return to the thread question, they seem to suggest all there is, is what is called God. You, everyone else, the animals, plants, stars, planets, everything. So if blame were to be placed (and it's not) it would have to be with God.

[naomi24]

//General view from them is that you do find yourself no longer connected to your past body, that the core you is of the spirit and that there are others you meet that are more advanced than you at this point.

Much food for thought.//

I'm not sure about the //others you meet that are more advanced than you at this point.// but I see no reason to connect this claimed experience to religion. It certainly does give food for thought though, but in my opinion those who automatically associate it with 'God' aren't thinking at all. The rest are the real 'good thinkers' - as per Goodlife's OP.