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Now I know that many of you, dear readers, maintain faith in a god of some sort. For those of you who do, who put your faith in him (or her), I have a question. I promise that I won't challenge, scorn or otherwise do the things I normally do, but I was hoping you could tell me this: How do you balance your belief in this god and still accept
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Anyway... there's a couple of views you can take on this.
1. Don't question God. You are incapable of thinking the way He does, or understanding His motives, because you are not God, and if he opened His mind to you, especially in your fragile corporeal form, your psyche would probably liquefy.
2. They got thwacked because they're almost entirely idolworshipping heathen cretins, and arent worth saving.
3. Growth is often fostered by adversity... and a completely sheltered life leaves the sheltered unable to deal with adversity. Besides, was one of the teachings of Christ not to do good works, spreading His ministry while easing the pain of your fellow man?
4. Blame Adam and Eve. If it wasnt for them we'd still be in the Paradise that God made for us -OR- Paradise is coming soon, and we're all going to be departing the corporeal then anyway. Why worry?
I think each of those would allow someone whose morals were compatible to keep the faith without undue question. Personally, I subscribe to a combination of 1 and 3 - if all we were supposed to do on this Earth is sit around and be happy, im pretty sure that there would be decent provision to do so. Some of the best improvements in my personal character and how I act towards others have come out of the worst periods in my life, and I think that applies to this as well. The reflex reaction to the disaster was, in my experience, fairly amazing. 500 tons of food alone apparently arrived there on Tuesday, with the amount going up as time progresses, and even some of the world's smaller countries jumping in to help with what I would imagine is, from them, a significant sum. International reaction to the disaster is also a good reason for this to happen, if you'll allow belief in God meddling in Earthly politics. A lot of the little guys came together for this, and the American regime got a big, blasting black eye. Our pledge went from the initial $15 million to $30 million after we were lambasted as stingy SOBs, and rose another $5 million in the last 24 hours - potentially in reaction to Canada actually outdonating us at $33 million. Im not sure if the donation includes the cost of sending the Lincoln battlegroup and co. over there - hopefully not given the cost of operating said group.
Sorry for that tangent. My point stands - and most of it focuses around argument 1: it is likely impossible to comprehend the thoughts of God. Given the Christian religion and the view of God as omnipotent/omniescent, there has to be at least a subconcious acknowledgement of the same idea - there has to be a reason that we were created imperfect, given that the perfect God should in turn be able to create a perfect human should he choose to do so.
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