#quoteoftheday Ive been a deep believer my whole life. 18 years as a Southern Baptist. More than 40 years as a mainline Protestant. Im an ordained pastor. But its just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: Those people believe just as strongly as I do. Theyre just as convinced as I am. And it just doesnt make sense anymore. It doesnt make sense to believe in a God that dabbles in peoples lives. If a plane crashes, and one person survives, everyone thanks God. They say: God had a purpose for that person. God saved her for a reason! Do we not realize how cruel that is? Do we not realize how cruel it is to say that if God had a purpose for that person, he also had a purpose in killing everyone else on that plane? And a purpose in starving millions of children? A purpose in slavery and genocide? For every time you say that theres a purpose behind one persons success, you invalidate billions of people. You say there is a purpose to their suffering. And thats just cruel.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:26:41 +0000
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