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Jacobb
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no, not really the way i see it is he made the world and suffering followed. He made life and it struggled to survive, the struggle is suffering, but it is our own and not from god.
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no i think he put us here and meant for us to take care of each other an our environment. and if we're not careful we'll have to make another noahs ark.
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Of course not. I blame the suffering in the world on the poor decisions and the selfish choices PEOPLE make. God gave us free will...it's up to us to create a better world.
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Even if I believed in the Christian God, I could not cast the blame upon him. Why would He choose to destroy and vilify all that he had created? Why would he create us, call us his sheep, his children, only to give us punishments that far exceed the sins we may have committed? To blame God, at least as I see it, is a cop-out. It is a way of denying our own part in this great big mess of things and seeking somebody/something else to blame. Those who choose not to take responsibility for their own actions will often seek such a scapegoat.
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God is not to blame for all, because life is sooo complicated and people have complicated things. With sooo many of us and free will to do what we want and satans temptations upon our lifes, things are messy! I bet he's having a hard time! But I'm sure he's made mistakes too! Life is precious to him and he probably feels trapped sometimes. Living everyday with messes to clean up! Suffering is daily and constant, and people die. Animals die and the earth is bitter cold to them. Animals are slaughtered and we are bitter cold to them! God loves people and animals, we see God through nature which isn't perfect. We are all suffering on earth until we die and then the unknown of where we will go?
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I believe that responsibility falls on man rather than God.
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It IS a nice thought, no? But unfortunately I can't any more blame an imaginary being than I can give him credit. +5
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No, people are quite capable of messing things up themselves, especially when they each may choose to do things their own way,
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I do not blame nonexistent entities for anything. If god existed, however, than yes, I would blame him. Here's why: God, being both omnipotent and omniscient, could have created any kind of universe, including a universe where good had meaning without evil, and no suffering existed. Being omniscient, he would have had absolute foreknowledge of all the suffering in the universe before creating it. So, if god created this universe, he did so with the intent of creating unimaginable quantities of suffering, in spite of the clear alternatives to such a universe and the easy work-arounds to suffering that could exist, even in this universe.
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