Did satan create viruses?

Terminal cancer is indeed painful, however most people with terminal cancer are under so much medication during the last remaining weeks they dont know what's going on. My uncle passed away after a 6 month fight with liver cancer, during the last two months he didnt know what was going on. Granted it was terrible to watch, he most likely didnt feel any pain or had any idea what was going on.

You're right, im not speaking from personal experience. And no I dont have an 'air tight' case against god, I dont need to present a case against something I dont believe in!

Yes, you are right. All I am is a physical body, however good can come from suffering. It can make people more open to others when it comes to suffering. I personally have a connective tissue disorder, that will leave me with a lifelong chain of heart problems in the future, and because of this I feel im a better person. I know that im not as lucky as others, and I treat people with the respect they deserve. However, this disability also makes me more harsh towards those who abuse their bodies (like drug users..). I get really angry when I see drug users abuse themselves, because they dont know what its like to not live normally. They take their health for granted, and I feel they don't deserve it. Pain has already found me, and i've accepted the fact that when im in my thirties i'll have terrible heart and lung problems. I accept death, its one of the only two definite things in life. The other being taxes..heh. Im not worried when I die, because I know there is no god, just like you know there is a god.

How do you explain people who suffer more than others? There are people who go through life with no medical problems, live to be 80 and die happy. Then you have people like me, who will suffer much physical pain, and will experience countless health problems in the future. Im only 19 years old, and I chances are will suffer more than a lot of people here. My suffering however, is nothing compared to those with terminal illness, cancer ect. I am very happy to be as 'healthy' as I am.

Viruses, carnivores, and parasites exist because they can. Just like we exist because we can. There is nothing god-driven about existence.

If ever conditions cease to be hospitable to an organism, it will cease to exist. Like dinosaurs. Or smallpox.

The fact that something is unpleasant or deadly to humans doesn't mean it's out to get us. It just means that living things are by nature opportunistic. All living things feed on each other. We feed on plants and animals and they feed on us. This fact tells us nothing about God.

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Well the lush separation unfolds you --
and the products of wealth
push you along on the bow wave
of the spiritless undying selves.
And you press on God's waiter your last dime --
as he hands you the bill.
And you spin in the slipstream --
timeless -- unreasoning --
paddle right out of the mess.

- Jethro Tull

Strawberries taste sweeter if you've lived on lemons all your life

And water is so much more enjoyable after a few hours of hard work

Even sitting on a chair can be a Godsend, if you've just run a few miles

Judy,

Virii are not alive, so how can they be opportunistic? They do not feed and have no ambition. They aren't even technically parasites.

Or purely anecdotal and thus having no statistical validity whatsoever ...

You would also need to define "blessed". Being of good health is often considered a blessing, or surviving a war unscathed, for example.

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Blessed- born into good fortune. Or good attained not by ones own works.

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I assume being horribly disfigured by a terrifying parasite is not part of this good fortune. And yet it somehow triggers it.

Somehow, if that is the price of being blessed I'll pass. I have enough blessings, thanks.

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According to my quote from Jesus. Lazarus did not choose to live a life of suffering, yet it was to his benefit that he did.

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As I said, purely anecdotal. Lazarus was one person.

Or are you referring to the whole 'last will be first' bit?

Although this is a bit off topic for the science forum, but there you go.

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If I must suffer to help someone, then I will. It was for the glory of God that he must be in that state, and through the event, we both were blessed.

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