If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, December 18, 2010, 08:20 (5088 days ago) @ David Turell


> > *IF* there is a God, and it gave us only a limited timespan to live, why blame any misfortune that befalls us on him. He did not 'break the child's neck', to use DHW's earlier example. He didn't make people *NOT* use netting that could prevent malaria, or *NOT* give them the medication that could treat it. He didn't make a person poor or rich, he didn't even give us the concept of wealth or money. He didn't divide up the Earth into geopolitical regions and then set them at each others throats for the rest of time. He doesn't start, end, or sanction our wars, regardless of what the priests might say to gain political favor. He doesn't make someone drive drunk, or put a gun in a killers hand, or put drugs in our women's drinks, or stick a needle in our arms. He doesn't take every invention that could be used for the betterment of mankind and turn it into a weapon to be used to destroy life. So, please, with all this talk about how He doesn't care about us, tell me please, just what the hell we have done with this life and this planet and to each other to actually deserve any further kindness in word or deed from him? Why shouldn't he just throw his hands up and tell us that we are on our own? When human beings develop the capacity for humility and accept the responsibility for their own lives, the good and bad, things will become better, not before. In my belief, God gave us everything we needed to be happy. We simply have chosen not to do it.
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> There is more truth to your rant than fiction. The gift of life is a tremendous gift. Many of us generally try and screw it up.-I know I am not any kind of good example of a life well led, but I take full credit and responsibility for that. To me, that is a huge difference from what I generally see.