Nepal

[wildwood]

This is a serious question.

Could any of the religious AB members please explain in words that I can understand or without pasting lengthy gibberish tomes, why their Almighty has seen fit to kill over 2000 people in Nepal?

[mikey4444]

Vulcan...agree 100% with you at 10:38 today...only gibberish could blame a God that doesn't exist, for an earthquake !

Vulcan...for the last time...its the tectonic plates that are to blame ::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics

[mikey4444]

Here is an even better link to explain plate tectonics, from Dr Iain Stewart ::


http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/surface_and_interior/plate_tectonics#p00fzssy

[sandyRoe]

When God made the world he fashioned it so that it could, in time, sustain life. That life, and in particular human life, would be the glory of His creation.
If Tectonic plates were a necessary part of that design so were earthquakes.

[mikey4444]

Sandy...I am not sure where you are coming from here but how does it "glorify" this God by killing huge numbers of people ?

If the is God is so merciful, as we always being told he is, why does he let so many people die in such agony ?

[vulcan42]

Keystone, I suggested you read what naomi wrote, not anything I had written.

[naomi24]

Vulcan, he's read five words of it and drawn a wonky conclusion. No change there.

[keyplus90]

////Keystone, I suggested you read what naomi wrote, not anything I had written.////

There you go again. Its "keyplus" and not keystone. Please first of all deal with hangover and then come back.

Finally, I can't understand Atheistic logic. They can't stop talking about someone they believe exists. No peace of mind there is it?

[keyplus90]

Perhaps I should have said that they can't stop talking about someone they believe does not exist.

[vulcan42]

Sorry keyplus, I was thinking of the keystone cops who are just as funny. Should I deal with my hangover before or after you've dealt with yours seeing as we've both made errors?

[Hypognosis]

@wildwood

Even as an atheist, I think I've worked it out.

God likes gardening, forests, jungles, plains, mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, swamps, oceans, deserts so he makes millions of square miles of the stuff. It gets dull after a day or two, so he plonks two people in on particularly pleasant area, to keep him company.

However, he doesn't want it to turn into porn because he isn't able to get any nookie himself (nothing worse than watching other people getting their jollies if you're a virgin, yourself), so he doesn't even grant them the noggin to lust after one another.

We know what happened next and he/she/it has been punishing us, ever since, because we've got pleasures that they cannot experience for themselves, as an ethereal being and all. Envy, plain and simple. He can't operate an automatic rifle, so he uses natural disasters, instead.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, //Perhaps I should have said that they can't stop talking about someone they believe does not exist. //

Again ... read my post that Vulcan suggested you read. Understanding that is not rocket science.

[EDDIE51]

Well if God did do it he has just had another attempt at it !