Reply #16: To me, the premise you offer is skewed

[The Straight Story]

"Now, if you believe in a just God, why would you want to praise him for letting this happen?"

Our term for 'god' sees god as all powerful over all things. God, to me, obey's our physics to some extent - ie, F=Gm1m2/r^2 - the further we get from God the less influence God has in our lives.

We can, and do (as we should), ask the same thing of ourselves as humans - why do we in the US, the most powerful country on the planet, allow the shit that happens across the globe to happen?

The Sudan is one of but many examples. We could swoop in, kill those in power, and liberate people - kind of like the right says we have done in Iraq. We have the power to do so - yet we don't.

Why?

WE as a country could be seen as 'god' in that we CAN do a lot of things to make life better for others - yet we don't. WE could stop the suffering of many people. Yet instead we seem to add to it time after time.

Does that mean we do not exist?

Or does that mean there is really 'evil' in the world (ala bush, etc) - where those with power abuse it instead of helping others. And in this country, a democracy, does that mean that you and I are evil because we are a part of it? I would hope not :)

There are bigger things at work here in the US, and some see that there are bigger things at work in the universe.

It does not always make sense...