If our transgressions and sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we live?
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“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
"bad stuff happen so no god" is not a very convincing argument.
How about kids with cancer? Thats a pretty good argument against. Unless those kids are karmic pariahs or something, but watch a St. Judes commercial and thst seems really unlikely.
If karma is a real thing, then you can be an asshole to everyone you ever meet, and justify it as you being the agent of bad karma to those you're an asshole too. You could kick a small child and say he deserved it for some shit that the soul did in a previous life.
And if bad stuff happening is an argument for the nonexistence of God, how about good stuff, or is that all random too?
I don't know. That post was in no way a declaration of knowledge in any way, shape, or form. And yes, thats why karma seems shitty. Why do i have to pay for something and i don't know what it is? Seems to easily manipulated. Again, who could say?
Karma is just a way that non-Christians deal with the "problem of evil", which is (admittedly) what theologians will admit is the best argument for the non-existence of God.
Logically, karma a shitty way to respond to the problem of evil, and it's shoehorned into things as a way to also explain aspects of reincarnation.
It is a convincing argument against the god of the bible, who claims to be all powerful.
It's a solid argument, but not a convincing one.
The fallacy of the argument, though, is the unfounded belief that a biblical God would WANT everything sugary sweet.
First, God would have to end free will in order to end suffering caused by our fellow man. He could have made us like robots, only able to do good.
Secondly, just like suffering towards a goal makes it more meaningful when you achieve it (ask any victorious athlete who trained hard for a victory) suffering turns us towards God. After all, if God was responsible for the creation of the universe, then nothing is possible without his passive or active will.