Does god need anger management?

Question

Wouldn't it have been smarter to sit down and talk things out instead of going right to mass murder? (Flooding the earth) Does god need anger management, an education, or both?

As a believer in the Christian god, does this explain George Bush's actions? Was he only following god's cruel, unjust, and immoral example?

Answer 1

God doesn't "NEED" anything...humans do!

Answer 2

The Old Testament doesn't apply. It was written at a different time. There is no God, at least the God that appears in the Bible. But if there were, he certainly would need anger management classes. Killing an entire country is hardly what I would think to be a good way to settle anything. There are other places in the Bible where God needs such classes - take for example the destruction of the world in the Noah fable. Actually this God sounds to me like a reincarnation of Poseidon, the god of the sea in Greek mythology. Poseidon's nymphs were angered by Ethiopia Queen Cassiopeia's vain statement saying her daughter Andromeda was the most beautiful who ever lived, so Poseidon conjured up a monster to destroy the people and villages of the coastal cities of Ethiopia.

Answer 3

The people need anger management, particularly believers of religion and God.

My studies and research shows that religious people are not exactly rocket scientists, they tend to be below average intelligence, and also have a tendency to be more violent than non-believers. In some cases, the more violent the person, the more religious they are. I suspect that the vast majority of religious people are well below average intelligence.

I wonder if trying to improve the intellectual standard of our global community, would help remove the various religions from our culture, and thereby improve happiness and peace for humanity.

It’s a statistical fact that the higher your education, income, and intelligence, the more likely you are not to believe in a god. For every college student that converts to a religious belief system, 17 college students convert to atheist beliefs.

Atheists have an average intelligence of 25 IQ points above their Christian counterparts. Ever wondered why the USA (75% Christian) is so arrogant, aggressive or violent towards others in this world?

Answer 4

It wasn't mass murder that God was doing. He was cleaning the bad before he could bring in the new. He gives warning and when people don't listen to it he looses patience W/ them and takes action. He's God...He's perfect. George Bush is human and makes mistakes. What he's doing isn't nessecarily going to make the world a better place. There are many diff. variations and thoughts as to why he's doing it...no one really knows. But God knows what He's doing...He knows everything. He's going to be doing the same when the rapture happens. He designed this world for us to live in and we're blowing it up and disobeying everything he's asked us not to do. He created us so he can take us away.

Answer 5

I'm surprised nobody has got the correct answer to this question yet. How can god need anger management when god does not exist? Some of the people who wrote the bible may have benefited from it, and some of the previous answerers might also find it useful.

Answer 6

Well, politics aside, God has infinitely more knowledge than we do. He doesn't need to talk things out. It would be like me asking my dog the answer to a math question. The dog doesn't know. People don't know anything compared to God. God has all knowledge, and he's perfectly holy. The question is not why does God punish sin, the question is why does he not always destroy people like he did in the flood? And the reason for that is for his love.

Answer 7

Are you crazy...Did you forget that God is God and He does just what he wants to do...We are not even worthy to question Him...And, did you forget 9-11? I just don't get how some people can forget so easily...If I'd have had family that died that day, I would have volunteered to go to Iraq...Thank God we didn't, but my Son volunteered anyway...He is there now and he knows that it is the only thing we could have done...Do you want to live under a Dictator's rule?...I DON'T...I thank God for my Son and all of the Soldiers that care enough about our American Brothers and Sisters...But, hey, I am not trying to be mean, but seriously think about what you are saying...

Answer 8

When God causes things to happen they are for a reason. We do not allways understand them. Many times when these disasters have occured it is because the people have turned from him and deserve to be punished. There are many examples of this in the Bible. Now I do not want to imply that disasters such as Katrina, 9/11 and the Tsamani were ment to punish us. We cannot say this for sure. But it does say in the Bible that at times God did punish the people.

Answer 9

I take it you are talking about Noah's flood. He gave the people many warnings before because they were doing immoral things but they did not listen. Before the flood, he told Noah to warn the people that there is going to be a flood and that they should be careful. But no one believed Noah and they were not putting any faith in God. He did give them a warning and he was being fair. They deserved to be killed.

You can compare this situation to a parent and their little kid. The parent warned the kid many times about playing with sharp things, but the kid did not listen. One day, while the kid was playing with sharp things, he accidently injures himself. Does this make the parent a bad example? Of course not, he told the kid many times not to do this, he provided a warning but the kid did not listen.

Answer 10

God, according to assurances in the Old Testament, is slow to anger, but the reported Great Flood, and more recent disasters and persecutions, raise questions in many people's minds concerning either His power or His managerial competence.

Tragically, it is quite easy to blame God for circumstances created by human choices. Why are innocent people not rescued from predators and persecutors?

There is no good answer except for each one of us to assume responsibility for our own world and our own lives, and quit laying all the blame and all the responsibility on God's doorstep. You don't believe in God? All the more reason to take the responsibility yourself. You do believe in God? All the more reason to obey and trust Him. To blame God is to despair of ourselves, to doubt our own power to change our lives and to change the world.

Let more and more of us try this: each person adopt as his/her creed:

"Love one another." -- Jesus.

What a great catalyst to an improved world would be represented by unconditional love spread among more people!. How wonderful if more people would leave themselves more vulnerable, but less prone to violence and selfishness, by trusting others more. If we could forgive everyone, turn loose of our sadness, pain and anger for the useless things they are, what a tsunami of joy would flood the world! If we thank God for nothing else, we should thank Him or Her for the extent to which many, many people have embraced such sound principles and thus removed that much evil from the world, that many shadows across the face of God rendering Him tragically invisible to so many people.

The more people there are who show such love and courage, the more evident will the benevolence and power of God on earth. As it is, of course, such virtues are rarer than would be to our advantage, hence consequences of human actions play themselves out more tragically than necessary. In just what way is it God's fault that our choices have bad consequences? The sufferings of the innocent and all other evil traces to the rebellion, irresponsibility, selfishness and malice of people, not any imagined failings of the Almighty.

And consider this, too: faced even with the bleakest events, great and benevolent leaders and great-hearted ordinary people usually come in and pick up the pieces after disasters of every magnitude, and, mercifully, each new generation of mankind is a new chance for humanity, the strangest but by no means the most virtuous form of wildlife on earth.

We older people often become too weary to face the challenges of the future. This is where the forgetfulness and high spirits of new generations brings us through! The greatest tragedy to a nation or to a world is when the young abandon hope.

Rather than say, "I no longer trust in God because of the world's evils," let us instead each resolve to say ever more strongly:

"As for myself and my house, we will serve God."

Answer 11

yes it would have been smarter, but those who claim to know why god did one thing or another typically invoke his approval of what they have done, so really it is humanity's cruel, unjust and immoral example... of course, god has allowed all of these to happen, which certainly calls into question any assertion that he is all-powerful, loves everyone, hates evil, or some combination thereof