Do you blame dirt for what grows in it?

Question

when you step on a sticker or bump into a cactus do you blame the dirt for allowing it to grow? then why do you blame God when bad things happen?

Answer 1

That would like blaming a child for its parents dysfunctional teachings. It would not work.
You can enrich soil to grow any living thing, as each plant is nourished by various nutrients.
You can nurture any child from dysfunction to healthful thought, and feeling. If they are shown loving care
and enriched with knowledge and empowerment.
You can enrich your spiritual life to withstand any adverse conditions, but nourishing your spirit with his love and word.
Each individual is as unique as each plant, and they must be nourished with many different and varying touches of what they need. Whatever we lacked when life brought us forth into adulthood. For some it is love, for some it is acceptance, for some it is forgiveness, for some it is weakness...We are all incapable of being perfect, but we can nurture the love of what is lacking if given without thought of reciprocity.

Answer 2

Are you talking about something specific, or just all people with all problems? I don't personally blame God for when bad things happen to me, but I don't think my life is rooted in God (like cactus in dirt) either. I think for a lot of people, religion (whichever you choose to follow) is an answer to questions and or situations which they cannot themselves explain or justify. In all, is that so bad? As long as their faith does not become an excuse to hurt/harm others, I say let them be, and definitely let ME be.

Answer 3

I don't Tony. I learned a long time ago, when a lot of people were looking to me for answers that God is not the author of evil but that He also does not promise that here in this life we will never be sick, hurt, in pain, lose someone we love or be the victim of a planned or natural catastrophe. Being a Christian is not a get out of jail free card...in fact, sometimes is down right hard to be one.

But, no matter what, if we call on God, HE will be there to help us through the bad times...and that is what counts.

The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 4

I find that it's much easier to blame God. It's certainly more conveinant!
Why should mankind take any responsiblity for their own actions?
God acts too much like a nagging parent - expecting you to grow up and be mature. Even taking responsiblity for for each other's well being!
WHAT? Do I look like my brothers keeper to you? Get real!
If I treat myself and others like garbage while raising my kids to do the same and we treat this planet like a garbage dump - HELLO! That's God's Fault ! :)

Intolerance!

Don't you know that "Tolerance equals NO Responsibility to self or others? Tolerance means never having to say you're sorry?
Tolerance means I don't have any accountability to society.
Thank you very much! :)

Answer 5

I don't since he doesn't exist. But if he did, you would be justifiable in blaming someone for putting a cactus in that place knowing you would bump into it. Dirt wouldn't know that. Bad analogy.

Answer 6

God's ways are a mystery for us. So logically, some people blame God for bad things He could have prevented.

Answer 7

I don't, any more than I blame ghosts; neither exists.





Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.evilbible.com/

What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html

How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Answer 8

I don't. I don't believe in God. However, you do, so let me ask this string of questions:

Did your deity, according to your beliefs ---

Create mankind?
Create free will for mankind?
Create all the possible choices mankind could make with that free will?
Create Satan?
Create Satan knowing Satan would rebel?
Create Satan knowing Satan would rebel and tempt Adam & Eve into making a wrong choice?
Create Adam and Eve with free will, with choices that would cause them to fall, that Satan would tempt them with, and that Adam and Eve would do?


So... if the deity you believe in created all of that...

Why don't you fault Him for his role in all this?



If I:
Created a robot
Created a robot capable of injuring or killing a person
Created a robot capable of injuring or killing a person and I KNEW it could.
Wrote a program that contained a bug.
Wrote a program that contained a bug then allowed it into the robot.
Wrote a program that contained a bug then allowed it into the robot knowing that the bug would cause the robot to malfunction and kill a human...

Would I not be guilty of murder?

Answer 9

Because dirt is dirt.

God, according to your folk is all knowing, all seeing and ALL LOVING.

Oh, and you guys worship him because of all that stuff written in the bible.

That to me implies a bit of responsibility from his side too... like a king to country. You know... you can't just ignore the suffering of your subjects and expect to be praised.

Answer 10

Because the dirt doesn't know things are going to happen in advance. God apparently does.

Next question.