Nope. Dude'd be a **** for watching this shitshow happen.
If he had an active hand in preventing evil shit, then yeah, that's lit.
I don't know about others' but to make a negative statement about the God I believe in is to spiral to incoherence. Keep in mind that the OP asked about God in a very broad way.
Interesting. I think... I wouldn't mind in there being a god however I would he against the idea of there being hell and heaven and punishing people for eternity. The reason for this is because there are so many factors that we can't control that mold us e.g environment,genetics,life events that I don't think in most cases blame should be put on one person who lived as little as (average) 70 years where they are punished for ETERNITY.
Assuming there is a God or even constructing a possible world in which there was a God I don't think it would make sense (in those circumstances) to worry about the culpability of the sinners for if a certain notion of God were to be true, and this notion of God were just, it would follow as a matter of necessity that there be grounds on which it would be fair enough for our being rewarded/punishable.
A side note to make is that you seem to be stuck at a concept of Newtonian time (I say this because you're weighting 70 years of time to eternity, implied to mean infinite amount of time), but I'd say this accusation is well out-dated if we were to make a distinction between a limitless continuity and an ever-lasting moment.
God killed 2.3 million people in the bible and allowed the devil to kill 10 people in the bible. Yet...wanna call Devil evil for letting us acknowledge our free will. The God that people believe that exist is nothing more than a walking contradiction being!
It would be best that people stop putting their faith in God and put that Faith in themselves. Find true inner peace.
That's a pretty shallow reading of it. You are entitled to your opinion ofc, but you'd be wise to acknowledge alternate views on the subject which do well to challenge your own. Mine for example would do this quite effectively (even dismantle it really) by proposing that free will was never a hidden matter and that the devil did an insourmauntable evil for alluring mankind to use their free will to disobey God.
On this view even if God were guilty of countless genocides and what not (an idea to which I do not subscribe) it still wouldn't be anywhere near as evil as the devil's acts. This is all ofcourse assuming that God were a subject to some external moral standard rather than being a moral standard in his own being, which I consider a far more worthy theory.
In refference to your last sentence all I have to say is that these 2 aren't mutually exclusive but the latter follows logically from the former for in putting one's trust in God who aims for that which is the best for one, one is also putting his bets on the most worthwile thing there is.
Sorry, but religious threads shouldn't be allowed. Nothing good ever comes out of 'em.
Religion has always and will always be a hot topic, being that God and the afterlife cannot be proven or disproven.
So it's better to not even talk about it imo
Indeed, they shouldn't be allowed. Not because nothing good can come of them (I myself have witnessed nice things resulting from them) but because these good things are greatly overshadowed by the negative attitudes that are typical on this forum. So I wouldn't say there's an intristic negativity in these topics, but would instead blame the enviroment in which they are discussed.
Religion prevents people from finding their best version of their self.
I hate how people think their God is the right one and all other Gods are fake, when all those other Gods had helped some of those people get through dark times or gave him false hope.
I hate that people who sell their soul to the bible refuse to read any philosophy books or any books that about life without God mentioned in it.
I hate how people are quick to list it as the devil's work when it something unknown and don't feel right. Those people to need to realize maybe they don't have the proper knowledge to comphrend the unknown!
I also hate how religion people say Knowledge are bad and a waste of time!
Stupid ass people!
Religion prevents people from finding their true self in as much as alchohol poses a negative influence on them. The secret is in how you use it, or so I would say. It's a fluke on your side to try to paste a moral claim such as this on a concept so broad and general such as religion. (Even more so when the discussed topic here isn't at all religion but whether one would like there to be a God.)
Comfort can be found in any idea, regardless of it's truth. I could find comfort in believing Santa Claus is real but this wouldn't make my belief true.
Instead of comfort I'd advise deploying the use of logic and reason in establishing the truth of one's beliefs.
Having said the bold, I (as a religious person) have cast doubt on your claim that people devoted to a scripture like Bible are close minded. You'd be better off not generalising so much.
Not god, but i wish there existed real purpose and meaning.
Would God not grant this very thing? Not saying the concept holds exclusive right to it but I think it does well to do it justice.
OT: Yes, if God isn't real, then it would be my greatest fantasy that He is.
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