Reply #56: Islam [View All]

[panzerfaust]

Of the three Abrahamic religions that share a common omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Islam gets my vote for being the most brutally honest about that god, and accepts that that which happens as His will ... indeed "Islam" meaning something along the lines of "Submission to the will of the one God, Allah, His Name be Praised"

The Jews come second, in my opinion, in accepting both good, and bad, as being the result of the actions of their god. It is only the Christers who want to give their god the credit for the good, and either pass the bad off as the actions of another superbeing "Satan" (who, by the very definition of their god, can only exist because god allows it), or as people's failure to understand God's greater plan, or who even blasphemously claim that God had nothing to do with it, one way or the other (blasphemy as this denies the very nature of their god).

Of course, another view is that there are no supernatural beings, that nature and this life is all that we have - so there is no need to look beyond the choices of ice, sudden structural failure, a bomb, or pilot suicide (a la Egyptian Airlines) for what tragically happened to that Dash 8.

Still, it is possible that someone was having such impure thoughts that god decided that s/he needed to be instantly smitten by the His Hand. Tough, though, about the collateral damage.

However, I am putting my money on ice causing an unrecoverable upset, rather than divine intervention in this terrible accident.

Datasuspect, thank you for starting this thread. It does always irritate me when god gets credit for good, and never is held to account for the bad. If you want an imaginary all-powerful friend, at least have the courage and honesty to take the bad with the good.