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Well technically speaking not, there is no God, but what kind of a person would I be if i left it at that :L Oh no of course he doesn't. At no point ever in time did he call the Jews his "Chosen people." No no way. Oh and of course God loves everybody equally, hence the fact he gives some the best life and others a living hell. I don't think "Suffer in this life and enjoy paradise in the next" is part of Gods repertoire.
Fantastic, well you may not get much help from me being an atheist, but are you genuinely surprised? You thought God was going to take special care of you? Look at the world, it's far from a perfect place, why should you receive perfect treatment. I know from your point of view, life has always been all about you, other people (including me now) are just other things, but the exact same experience your having of life is being experienced by billions of others. So why should you in particular be looked after. God is not a perfect being, ever since mankind was created he has been maltreating us horrendously! You want happiness? You want to live a full happy life? Stop worrying about God all the time, I am not saying denounce your faith, I very much doubt that would happen, just stop worrying about what you don't have and start considering what you do. Now, that's about as pretentious I can get without bursting in to a rage why God is not real, and if he did he would be the biggest mass murdering villain ever yadda yadda yadda. Way I see it, you're not happy now, but later on if you re-read this you'll probably laugh at how silly you sound, or feel ashamed at how you were parading your problems on the internet. By then whatever you feel sad about will have passed. Oh well, that's a little of what I think, but you don't have to listen :D
How can you be an atheist if you are angry at God? You have to believe in someone to be angry at them. I counter that you are indeed an intellectual theist. No, that is not an oxymoron. Thank you for caring though.
I decided not to go in to the whole " God does not exist" rant as that would have got us no where. I was assuming that if there were a God ( Or some omnipresent being ) then.. E.t.c.
I'm kind of mixed here, since I don't actually see evidence of a god in the first place, but I digress.
I believe if God exists from the stories I have read, that he must pick favorites. The difference in religions is evidence of that. He tells his followers to destroy those who don't follow. If he feels like a group is getting too powerful or set in the ways of sin he'll send armies to destroy them like with Sodom and Gomorrah.
There is countless bible stories where god gives greater ability to one specific person or persons for the purpose of making them better than those around. One specific example is with Moses. he was given the powers of a god to free his people, but what's to say that the people imprisoning his people weren't righteous.
If you feel that example is a bit iffy, which I do, here's another. The story of Samson where God imbued a warrior with the strength of a god to best everyone on the battlefield, stored in his hair.
Perhaps a bit jokingly I could say "God has a plan for everyone" so if you do bad his plan was for you to do bad so anyone that's not doing bad was chosen by God not to do bad, thus he picked a favorite, and you weren't it.
Definatly the ones that sin (the one he just doesn't like) He sends to hell. Those who follow him (The ones he does like) Goes to heaven... You see my point?
This in it's self shows that god is not in anyway perfect.
There is no evidence that a god exists thus no reason for me to believe he/she/it does, and if god doesn't exist then he can't pick favorites, unless we're just talking about conceptual gods in that case depending on the god he/she/it may or may not, but if he/she/it does play favorites, he/she/it is not omnibenevolent.
If it is the hand they are dealt than god could have given everyone equal chances, unless you don't believe in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent god of course. If they worked for it, why didn't god create everyone with the same measure of motivational drive and capacity to work? If some people work harder than others, god made them that way when it would have been equally as easy to make everyone equally hardworking thus you might say that means he intentionally made some people hardworkers than others.
Maybe he tried. What if that is what the story about the garden of eden was. God's first attempt at humanity where he tried to make them perfect from the get-go. Maybe the state of perfection can only be possible if you have an understanding of imperfection.
It's the yin and the yang. The God and the Devil. The good is the God keeping things in balance, while the bad is the devil keeping things in balance. You cannot blame either of them for playing favorites.
I am not saying that God plays favourites. I am saying that whatever bad happens, the devil is keeping things in balance and whatever good happens, god is keeping things in balance. No good can happen without some bad.
I say it again, life cannot be all rainbows and sunshine.
The bible tells us that god has not interfered directly in the lives of humans since the time of Adam and Eve (the beginning of the human race) with a few notable exceptions. Your life is yours make of it what you will
I dont understand why other people keep on blaming God, and yet they dont even believe in Him. In my own opinion, He doesnt take favorites. And other people are more miserable than others because I believe that they dont take the opportunities that are given to them. I am aware that people have a decision if they would make their life as well-lived or not. As a saying goes, people are handling their own destinies. So as to say, even if there is a God, or no God, then it is up to us people on how our life would go for us.
Some people think God favors a certain Sports team of theirs when their team wins. It is not true because they don't think this way when their team loses.
