Wow I gotta chime in.
God lets bad things happen because FREE WILL. He allowed free will into the world, man chose evil, and thus we were scorned with our own iniquity in the form of many things. Natural disasters, disease, hate, etc...
On pharoh. When you hear the word of God, either 2 things happen. You harden your heart and become less likely to accept it next time, or you do accept it.
If you look around many atheists are former "Christians" or had some upbringing in faith of some sort, yet they never accepted it, thus there astrangement (sp?) to it.
How come, that in the biggest religions Christianity and Islam demands money, To even be a member?
Christianity, you give money to the collect or to the church.
Islam, there you should give 5-10% of the salery to be a true Muslim, and to be able to go to a moske.
Its pretty shitty really, I have only been in a moske and church, so I cannot say anything about Judaism.
If one scrap of it all, money is whats still are left. Don't get it really... Hydromaxm.
Yeah Kong its pretty childish claiming someone(god) to save others, people save other people. All I ment was that god seem pretty powerless, because it can only sit and watch how the world turns really.
LOL, you are too funny man. You must pay to be a member eh? Like dues to a club or association or sorts? What kind of Church did you ever attend? No contemporary non-denomination (not baptist, protestant etc), will do such a thing, and if they are do they are false and not in the truth. At my local church and the one I attend in Riverside (harvest.org is their site), one of the top/biggest Churches in california, send a collection around once, but they ask newcomers not to donate.
If God interfered with the world constantly saving people from death there would be no free will, and that would make our existence pointless to Him AND us.
BTW, did you notice it hit an area where Christianity is very strongly constricted by the government and Islam is prominent... interesting...
But it's certainly difficult to believe that there is a supernatural force of love, wisdom and justice, when many who claim to have It on their side are bigots, full of hate, and disrespectful of the laws they themselves have made or claim to have received from God.
Many? That is a baseless opinion, Id even say a lie. I actually live in Christian community, and Id say people that are truly hateful etc are very very very in the minority in the congregation, many not even apart of the congregation itself.
BTW, what have atheists ever done. I love how Atheists will bicker about the imperialistic stance of Christianity, to change the world and conquer it, synonomous with the US. They cite the crusades and the 'fact' that Christians are so 'overbearing and propagating' in their faith.
It is funny to note, 3 major atheists in history, known genocydists Mao Ze Dung (China), Pot Pol (Cambodia), Hitler (Germany). Was Stalin an atheist? I forget.
Now THAT is 'overbearing and propagating', where the government is forcing their 'religion' on others. Just had that on my mind .... ok done