Imagine that. I never professed to be God!
No, I specifically said it was *our* fault. You however wish to blame someone else apparently, but apparently it's a someone else that you don't even believe exists!
I simply don't recall God interceding on Jesus' behalf the night before Jesus was put to death and he"prayed about it". I don't recall blaming anyone other than humans for such stupidity either. My resolution is for humans to help each other. Lot's of Christians feed others who would otherwise die of starvation by the way. What have you personally done about it recently?
That is absolutely non responsive to my questions. That's not an answer, nor is it a valid response to my point. We humans have all the resources that we need to feed everyone on Earth anytime that stop being so greedy an selfish and we *choose* to feed them. Why should God do *our* job again?
It's your own strawman apparently.
Yet you seem to have no problem "judging" one anyway?
What in the world makes you believe that "non suffering in physical form" was ever the point of life in the first place? Did Jesus himself lead a "suffering free" existence? If not, why should I expect that?
The selective aspect is rather obvious. I'll grant you that much.
Sure they have. They come with solutions in everything from concepts involving reincarnation to eternal life, none of which you've event *tried* to address. You just keep skipping right over them intentionally.
Sometimes. Drug attics do it all the time.
I'm apparently missing the part where God ever claimed that physical comfort on Earth was his primary goal in life. I'm missing the part where humans get to shirk every bit of responsibility for not sharing Earth's resources and for being so callous, while God get's all the blame.
It's an interesting take on things alright, but it's all your own strawman apparently.
Odd by your standards, and even odd by mine perhaps, but neither of us has power over life and death and nor knowledge of the progress of various souls, or God's intent for them *eternally*.
It may be obvious to you, but it's also contradicted by uncounted numbers of accounts of individuals that have claimed exactly the opposite. I guess yours is the only opinion that matters however. Most folks would call that denial.
Possibly.
How do you know that it's "arbitrarily" in any way?
More judgements from you about the motives of a God that you don't even actually believe in? You have an odd way of arguing points.
I hope you *at least* recognize that your elevation of 'creature comfort' to the status of "utmost importance" (to God) isn't shared by all humans.
It's only a "problem" because humans are selfish and they have no power over life and death. It's not much of a problem if you have power over life and death however. It may be no more of a "problem" to God than changing your dirty shirt is a "problem" to you.
Already you've made an assumption about souls that you can't actually make. Many religions "assume" that souls reincarnate in *many* forms over *many* lifetimes. One's placement in life isn't accidental. One's dharma (mission) in this lifetime and one's karma (previous activity) from past lifetimes play a *primary* role in one's placement in this life. Even *placement* is designed to serve a *long term* (more than one lifetime) goal (soul evolution).
It is? Where *should* he be intervening based on *his* criteria rather than yours?
You mean his priorities in life don't seem to center around the concept of creature comfort and that really bugs you apparently.
Perhaps you might have a real point were you able to demonstrate that humans as a whole are somehow immune from any responsibility, and God's number one duty is creature comfort for everyone on Earth.
I didn't imply anything of the sort. You did that. I said that *humans* are responsible for letting one another starve to death while Earth gives us *more than ample* resources to feed everyone. It's not God's fault, it's our own selfishness that is at fault. You actually even agree with me, you just won't admit it because it takes all the wind out of your sails.
It's apparently nonsensical to you primarily because you *assume* that creature comfort on Earth is the entire "point of life" from God's perspective, and it is his most important duty to everyone. All this assumption in spite of the fact that it's illogical to make such an assumption in the first place.
You have a really bad habit of putting words and motives in my mouth (happy, ect), none of which I actually ever said. Apparently you're quite "happy" misrepresenting what I actually said.
Is so, you'll have no problem quoting me where I said such a thing. I'm simply happy to let God be God without all my personal (and rather ignorant) judgements about his motives.
So there are no well fed "Eastern atheists"?
I think that I enjoy my life. I think that it would be pointless for me to around blaming God for the *obvious* sins of humanity. I don't run around "judging God" as you do because I don't profess to *know* that creature comfort is God's *primary interest* and his duty to begin with.
But of course you discount them anyway.
The truly sickening part is that you and I (and everyone else) aren't doing more to put an end to it while we are here on Earth. What's sickening is how humans treat each other on a daily basis. What's sickening is the complete *lack of responsibility* we take for our actions.
No, it's not.
So long as you ignore all the various ways that different religions *do* address these issues (like reincarnation, soul evolution, eternal life), you're simply tilting at windmills of your own design.