If God was into punishing bad people, why didn't he send a tsunami to Wall St?

[raccoon]

If anybody deserves punishment, it should be those crooks.

Seriously, I find it so aggravating that some people say N.O. was being punished for--I don't know what some of the whackjobs say N.O. was being punished for--Pompeii was punished for being too sexual, etc.

[Deep13]

1. As long as you are fucking the right person, God doesn't care what you do.

At least that's what I understand from listening to the Pope and to TV preachers.

[LiberalLoner]

2. You'd think so, wouldn't you? Personally, I believe

that God doesn't send punishments, that we exist in this world with all the pain and disasters and that it's kind of like a battlefield and God is the commanding officer. He didn't create the conditions and doesn't like them any more than we do, but we are all in the battle together, trying to let the forces of light win against the forces of darkness.

Sounds silly as I type it but those are my personal beliefs so I just never agree when people say "this area was punished by God" etc. or "this person was punished by God" etc. because I truly don't believe God punishes.

K&R

[Ninjaneer]

15. Where did you pick up your idea of what god is?

I ask because so many religious people have their own definition of god that blatantly contradicts whats in their religious text. For example:

"Do you believe in the biblical god?"
"yes"
"but you don't think that god sends people of other religions to hell for not worshiping him?"
"no"

If you're not going to trust the religious text for its definition of god, shouldn't you discard the whole notion of god to begin with, since the religious text is where you got the idea from?

Edit: spelling

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Because we're being punished with Wall St. They are our locusts. n/t

[RandomThoughts]

4. What are people being punished for.

Where is the due process.

If some are being punished, that is alot of civilian casualties, and not something that God would be limited by.

Your comment justifies Wall street as the punisher of God, maybe they work for greed entity, or Capitalism do harm entity.

Can you say where and why they have gotten the information to punish people. Might it be they are punishing the faithful for not being greedy and mean enough?

How do you know what side it is coming from?

By the fruits of there actions, and what you think is best effects for society.


And I still do not have beer and travel money, and many experiences.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. "God is a mean kid with a magnifying glass." n/t

[RandomThoughts]

10. Then I will remove that thing, from what I consider my reality

That is not god, anything that is a mean thing, and by implication of magnifying glass you mean torching ants. so if that thing be cruel, it is not what I consider God.

And worse by many comments like your comment it has some thinking it is somehow divine, so that false thing is my enemy, and I will try to be nice and get it to think and feel on its decisions, or whatever else it takes to let such wrongness know it is not God.


The problem is when someone thinks anything of power is god. They many times they don't fight what is wrong. And people can fight wrong with however they are, or whatever they know. And when they do, sometimes they find a little comfort and even a little help or support of kindness from many people and things of better spirit.

[elocs]

5. The rain falls and the sun shines upon the just and the unjust.

Shit happens. The assumption is that God or god is into punishing people in this life.

Pompeii?

[WolverineDG]

8. Yup

Shit happens. When it does, help those affected pick up the pieces.

dg

[dkf]

6. Well you'd take out a lot of New Yorkers too.

That's a pretty horrible thing to say actually. It's not impossible.

[raccoon]

9. Please read the rest of my post. nt

[skepticscott]

11. It's all part of God's plan

Don't worry that it's incomprehensible to you...you are not supposed to understand, only to accept without thinking or questioning.

[AlecBGreen]

12. SO CLOSE!

It's all part of God's plan (yes)

Don't worry (yes) that it's incomprehensible to you (yes) ...you are not supposed to (fully) understand (yes), only to accept (yes) without thinking or questioning (nope).

[skepticscott]

13. You either accept that

everything is part of "god's plan" or you don't. Questioning or doubting that something resulting in the death of millions can be the result of a deliberate act or deliberate failure to act by "god" is not "accepting".

Nice try.

[Ninjaneer]

14. I met a religious apologist who didn't move the goalpost, and argued logically once.

but then I woke up.

[westerebus]

16. Where do you think the rest of the gods live?

Just ask the Donald.

[Iggo]

17. God's into punishing innocent people to punish bad people.

Ain't ya heard?