Reasons for disbelief in the Christian God

So Ghost argues that the existence of great tragedies of apparently undeserved misfortune and suffering is evidence that God does not exist.

Two questions I would ask Ghost.

1.) Is there absolutely no one in your life who has ever suffered unduly because of actions that YOU ...Ghost-of-a-Duke took ?

2.) If within the next hour God were to balance perfectly the scales of justice upon every wrong doing that caused an innocent person to suffer unduly, would you, Ghost-of-Duke be punished for the suffering you caused someone?

Or would you just be there congratulating God for FINALLY dealing with everyone ELSE as justice demands. But YOU would be just an exempt condoning bystander telling God that it is about time He made it all right ?

@kellyjay said
You know if it doesn't make sense to you okay, I thought your post was well said.

@divegeester said
The first two paragraphs of your post didn’t make much sense.

Nevertheless my assertion remains that the question: “why does god permit a child to suffer?” Is exactly the same question from whoever asks it. The difference is that some, people are going through the suffering personally and find the generalised platitudes offered by contemporary Christianity to be an insufficient explanation.

@dj2becker said
Does the suffering of children in any way cause you to doubt the existence of God?

@philokalia said
Um, sure, I guess there is a point at which it is more responsible to use a lot of pain killers on your child or -- the worst thing ever -- there have been circumstances where a child has needed to be put out of their misery due to the intense suffering that they had and the inability to do any else.

And that is an extremely morbid topic. But we are adults here ...[text shortened]... ying to disprove the validity of God by looking for extreme outlier scenarios of children suffering.

@dj2becker said
Does the suffering of children in any way cause you to doubt the existence of God?

@divegeester said
Yes.

@sonship said
So Ghost argues that the existence of great tragedies of apparently undeserved misfortune and suffering is evidence that God does not exist.

Two questions I would ask Ghost.

1.) Is there absolutely no one in your life who has ever suffered unduly because of actions that YOU ...Ghost-of-a-Duke took ?

2.) If within the next hour God were to balance ...[text shortened]... would be just an exempt condoning bystander telling God that it is about time He made it all right ?

@dj2becker said
Yet you still believe in God so it’s not a deal breaker.

@divegeester said
What “deal” are you referring to?

@dj2becker said
A deal breaker in terms of your belief in God.

@divegeester said
You seem to run into a cul de sac.

@dj2becker said
You don’t seem to understand what a deal breaker is. Or you’re just being obtuse.

@divegeester said
Of course I know what it is, but I was discussing the question of children suffering with KellyJay and you just blurted off a question and now you have immediately run out of steam.

As I said, you seem to have run into a cul de sac.

@dj2becker said
The point you’re seemingly missing is that suffering children may cause you to doubt the existence of God but it’s not a deal breaker. So the question is why is it a deal breaker for ghost?