The reason I asked is because––and I know that this a very tired argument against religion but it applies to statements like these––a lot of people are dealt very shitty hands in life. If you believe that an omniscient God has blessed you and befriended you, then as banal it may sound you are essentially saying that you’ve been singled out over others since a lot of people have no relationship with the God you 100% believe exists and plenty are not so blessed. A friend of mind who I don’t talk to anymore but I used to be friends when we were children was severely mistreated in his youth. He and his brothers and sisters had a maniacal father that would beat them and rape them and starve them and then at some point before or during middle school, I don’t even exactly remember, his father was jailed or died or something and then he was homeless and lived in shelters and sometimes on the streets and then even when he got older was taken advantage of and mistreated (I think he might be mildly mentally challenged or stunted somehow) so overall, a pitifully depressing life. Now, I don’t really bring that up to challenge your personal experience. I just bring it up because I have never understood why someone would find the idea pleasant that God has had a positive impact on their own life when others obviously weren’t so lucky. You say “why me?” but I think “why not him?” If I believed that somebody was choosing to better my life whilst choosing not to help someone else, I wouldn’t be comforted by that thought.
Post #1197335
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- moviefreakedmind
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- Religion
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- 17-Apr-2018, 1:44 PM