Do you think God might be a bit of a sadist?

Answer 1

Well, if you think about it, he must be a little bit of a masochist too since it's supposed to be torture for him to see his children suffer.

Answer 2

Atheists are sadistical. They have no reason to harass theists, yet they don't cease. If they truly believe there is 'no' God, it is a waste of their time to discuss the matter. Immanuel Kant told us that if people who have silly beliefs, we shouldn't hate them: we should just feel sorry for them. Enjoy the freedom and be proud of how much smarter you are than everyone else.

I remember something that George Orwell said, in Down and Out in Paris and London: that [a character] did not seem so much to disbelieve in God, as to have a vindetta(sp?) against him. Such seems so much to be true of so many "atheists".

John Locke told us, "It is not reasonable to deny the existance of an infinate being, simply because we cannot understand its operations." Deists have call to write libel against God. What is it that motivates the unbeliever to do it other than cruelty?

Retaliation? Fine: people of faith push it onto those who lack it. But they do it because they care. They genuinely believe that what they have found is important and can help people. Maybe they believe it is imperative to our status in the next realm. And maybe they are wrong. But they are motivated by compassion. Irreligious people are motivated by spite.

They could be wrong. And they could be responsible for war or terrorism or hate crimes or persecution or whatever. But if it is all a ruse, if it's all biology, if we are just animals without souls, then this "plague" of religion is an inevitable mirage in our minds with some weeding-out-of-undesirables purpose for the continuous, changing parasite of the planet earth that is "life". If ethics, if morals, if feelings, are just instincts, or preoccupations of our minds, now that they are overly developed, then what we percieve as suffering, is just learned behaviour to avoid a similar fate for ourselves that would hinder the survival of our species. And it doesn't effing matter.

Answer 3

Life is meant to be touch and challenging. God, the universal spirit that binds the whole universe together as one, leaves us to solve our problems, or let them get bigger and harder to deal with. The fact that we choose, not to make an all out effort, to make this world a better place, is not God's fault, it is our own fault. Traditional Religions, need to leave the dark ages of the past, and accept newer and better spiritual ideas, from all sources available, so that they can really help, in the effort to make for a better world.

Answer 4

A BIT??? If he exists, very much so. The murder of innocents continues without Mr All Powerful doing anything about it.

There is no excuse for an all powerful being to let this happen. None. Not even free will. It isn't good enough.

Which is why I don't believe in God.

Answer 5

Depends on if there really is a god to be a "sadist"
Imaginary forces can't be anything.

Answer 6

Not a sadist, its karma you are referring to.

Answer 7

Anyone who can let small babies and children die in a horrible painful way has to be a sadist.

Answer 8

Let's see....

He gave chickens wings but not the ability to fly knowing full well that wolves would hunt them.

He gave humans the genetic capability to regrow limbs but "shut it off" knowing full well humans would lose limbs.

Answer 9

There is no such god. What we consider cruel is part of the natural process there is not god to start it or stop it.

Answer 10

Only on Wednesdays and the first tuesdays of the month.