• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    God has a plan and He’s in control. Until he isn’t, then it’s evil! But just trust in God’s plan. Unless this is the evil plan? Oh no!

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    God can not be in control at the same time as the “forces of evil” being to blame unless god is evil.

    Which according to the bible he is as he quite clearly states evil as all things, comes from him.

    At which point I don’t get why you’d worship that thing.

    If this deity is what he’s stated to be, creating evil or letting it exist are conscious choices made, defacto making it evil too.

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      God created everything, and knew exactly how things would play out for all time. He specifically made this event happen, just like every other single bad thing in the world. He has the power to prevent anything, and he even has the power to prevent anything without infringing on free will. The cunt just doesn’t want to.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Why did God control a cop to shoot a 5 year old then? Why didn’t the prayers help as he lay in the hospital in critical condition? Seems like everything was in place for the right thing to happen, but all of it went wrong.

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      The most likely explanation: there is no god and evil people do evil things with no rhyme or reason. And life is unfair and children don’t deserve the pain inflicted upon them, but until humans collectively grow past infantile hatred and violence, things like this are going to keep happening.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How much money did god say he needs because of this, and can we see an itemized invoice?

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    If I was of a conspiratorial mindset, I would say that Osteen staged the whole thing to make people more sympathetic to Israel and less sympathetic to Palestinians. That’s probably not what happened, but it sure helped them out.