I Ratant
17th October 2011, 10:55 AM
I was taken by the professions of faith in god by the survivors of the victims of the Seal Beach murders in the LA Times today..
And responded... I don't expect to see this published anytime soon. :)
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"The horrors of the Seal Beach murders can't be diminished, but why exacerbate them by attributing them to God?
For a "mysterious way", 8 murders are certainly that, and difficult to impute to anything more than a deranged person.
No supernatural prodding or intervention needed.
There are just as horrible murders going on today around the world in Africa and Asia.
Does God get credit for these also?
One might say "Yes", as too many of these are bound in the religions of the areas.
Why in the 21st Century do we need to invoke a Stone Age superstition to alleviate what is merely man's inhumanity to man?
What lesson is there in Seal Beach?
That those 8 needed to die for a reason "unknowable to man"?
Are those deaths any different than those listed in the Book of Job, where innocent people die and loathsome things happen to one guy, due to a -bet-?!!!
The All-knowing, All-loving, God -bets- with Satan that Job will remain faithful despite the horrors visited him and his family.
This is not All-loving, it is sadism.
And God finds someone on Earth to relate the story to, for bragging rights.
It's no different than the story of the Flood, where the All-knowing decides He's really screwed it up, and kills everything on Earth, except for a family that rides out the situation on a raft, with a few chickens and goats.
More sadism.
That so many people have enough self-hatred to accept these monstrous actions by a sadist as right and proper is appalling.
Why Stone Age myths are accepted today without examining the human basis for all of them...
why is that?
We know enough about how people work and malfunction to see the flaws in humanity, there's no need to invoke the supernatural and "mysterious ways" to comprehend the sources and the cures for our problems. "
And responded... I don't expect to see this published anytime soon. :)
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"The horrors of the Seal Beach murders can't be diminished, but why exacerbate them by attributing them to God?
For a "mysterious way", 8 murders are certainly that, and difficult to impute to anything more than a deranged person.
No supernatural prodding or intervention needed.
There are just as horrible murders going on today around the world in Africa and Asia.
Does God get credit for these also?
One might say "Yes", as too many of these are bound in the religions of the areas.
Why in the 21st Century do we need to invoke a Stone Age superstition to alleviate what is merely man's inhumanity to man?
What lesson is there in Seal Beach?
That those 8 needed to die for a reason "unknowable to man"?
Are those deaths any different than those listed in the Book of Job, where innocent people die and loathsome things happen to one guy, due to a -bet-?!!!
The All-knowing, All-loving, God -bets- with Satan that Job will remain faithful despite the horrors visited him and his family.
This is not All-loving, it is sadism.
And God finds someone on Earth to relate the story to, for bragging rights.
It's no different than the story of the Flood, where the All-knowing decides He's really screwed it up, and kills everything on Earth, except for a family that rides out the situation on a raft, with a few chickens and goats.
More sadism.
That so many people have enough self-hatred to accept these monstrous actions by a sadist as right and proper is appalling.
Why Stone Age myths are accepted today without examining the human basis for all of them...
why is that?
We know enough about how people work and malfunction to see the flaws in humanity, there's no need to invoke the supernatural and "mysterious ways" to comprehend the sources and the cures for our problems. "