So Mr. Fusion, is it only bad that your niece suffers from her condition because she is soooo beautiful?

I refer to my niece as someone I personally know. And yes, she is a very beautiful person on the inside. Warm, cheerful, intelligent, the kind of person we all wish for. On the outside however is the warped, twisted shell she is forced to live. The backbone that requires a straightening brace 24-7. The leg turned in too far to walk properly. The pain of so many surgeries.

So where was this perfect “god” when she was created in his image?

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If you can answer one question, I will give you credit for winning the discussion.:

Where did “god” come from?

An answer that suggests he has always been is not an answer.

Would it be okay if an ugly child had to deal with it instead?

God didn’t make me outwardly perfect. I had surgery as a child to try and make it perfect too. It didn’t work. Too bad you are more worried about what she looks like on the outside versus the spirit and heart that is on the inside.

You can’t do any better at demonstrating that God doesn’t exist to me than I can to make you believe. Sounds like you are pissed at Christian dogma. More than one road leads to God though.

I realize your mind is already made up and maybe has no possibility of being at least “open” to the idea, but you should check out this film:

http://www.expelledthemovie.com/

As far as the driver in this story, he should be taken in on a mental health warrant.

Given your complaints it appears that your anger should be directed toward the sins of man instead of the perfect character of God.

If your “God” is so perfect, it sure the hell seems he screwed up with this planet. Didn’t he have to cleans it with a flood? Didn’t he send his son to fix the place. Then didn’t he just have his son killed off? Ya right.

#13, Kim,

My wife and I are God fearing, so why would she end up with cancer?

My point exactly.

God is working to fix these things, and part of the “fixing” is His need to shout at us in our pains; it lets us know that not everything is right with the world.

No, it is more like your “god” couldn’t get anything right when he created the earth. That, however, would make him imperfect, but hey, it was you that says he didn’t make the world right.

Not all Christians behave that way or believe as he appears to believe. In fact, most don’t.

Which is a serious problem. Christians have this innate ability to pick and chose which parts of their religion and bible to believe in. Well, instead of an innate ability, how about a selective ability. It doesn’t have to be this specific instance.

Should children be beaten?

Can we have sex with our slaves? What if they are servants instead of slaves?

Why can King David have hundreds of wives but not Mr. Fusion?

Is a cloven hoof ok to eat?

Does not working on the Sabbath apply to those who work for us? Doesn’t that also apply to pastors?

God is a fantasy. He exists only in your mind as a dream or wishful thinking. It is always so much easier to accept your wife’s cancer as “god’s” will than accept that she was exposed to a carcinogen or just had a faulty gene.

Many times I and others have asked the deluded to provide some evidence that “god” exists. There isn’t any. No more so than there is any evidence that it was I who ate the last cookie. Demonstrate that “god” exists and I will will believe.

Will you people EVER post a POSITIVE Christian story?

Do you have one?

My wife and I are God fearing, so why would she end up with cancer? Why would I face two lengthy periods of unemployment in the past 5 years?

Far from destroying my faith, these events have made me stronger in my faith. No, they are not pleasant to endure, but the issue is that we live in a broken world and we ourselves are broken. God is working to fix these things, and part of the “fixing” is His need to shout at us in our pains; it lets us know that not everything is right with the world.

I know that this answer is not very satisfactory to a non-believer. Nor is it (I’m sure) the entire answer, which I don’t know any more than you.

Regarding the original story: taking an obviously aberrant case and making him stand in for all Christians is prejudice. Not all Christians behave that way or believe as he appears to believe. In fact, most don’t.

Given your complaints it appears that your anger should be directed toward the sins of man instead of the perfect character of God.

Just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean He doesn’t believe in you.

That would make a lot of sense to a schizoid person.

Maybe you can explain why “god” allows my beautiful niece to suffer from spina bifida? This is a disease developed in the womb. After several surgeries and lots of braces she can lead an almost normal life. Now, what “god” would do that to such a beautiful child. BTW, her parents are “good, god fearing people”.

On a more global scale, what “god” would allow planes to crash deliberately into tall buildings?

What “god” would allow his creations to foul the world he created with pollution?

What “god” would allow some of his creations to live in luxury while most were poor and some starved to death.

Happy Holidays.

Just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean He doesn’t believe in you. True, believing would give you one less thing to mock, but is that really such a bad thing?

Merry Christmas.

Stories like this just prove that Christianity (like all religions) are nothing more than a mental illness. Depending on an imaginary figure in the sky to guide your day to day lives sure sounds mentally sick to me!

Why aren’t there any positive Christian stories? Uhm, because there aren’t any?

Tax-free businesses scamming its members for millions of dollars for ‘god’s will’ is sickening. God doesn’t need money, why does your church?

I don’t think the guy who caused this accident is any more sick than the average religious person – they’re all nuts!