I saw this on a bumper sticker this morning and it got me thinking...

Why would anyone think this? Even if you believe in an all-powerful God who created the universe, there is clearly no evidence that the above statement is true in the least. Seems clear that he is not good, at least some of the time.

The 2004 Indonesian tsunami alone killed almost a quarter-million people instantly, including innocent babies and children. How exactly can this be described as God being "good"?

dude , not only he is good but he is on OUR side every time.

Really?

Even at Sodom and in the days of Noah's genocide?
If God was good all the time he would never have to repent yet he is shown to. Strange.

There are some in this link that do not agree with you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7irFN2gdI

Regards
DL

lol , I was being ironic

have u not noticed that for the last 2k years in every war the leaders of both opposing armies told their soldiers that god was on their side ?

The reason this statement mystifies me is because it has nothing to do with faith. Faith involves believing something you cannot see... ok, fair enough. But believing that God is good all the time requires willful blindness to just about the entire world around us.

Horrific things are happening to people every day. Things so horrible most of us who sit comfortably on our computers will never be able to fathom. Mudslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, starvation, death by horrible painful diseases - you name it. Right now there are likely young girls who have been kidnapped by some psycho who are chained up in some basement who will NEVER be found and will die there, maybe after a lifetime of torture. The mind reels at the sheer magnitude of the horrors that are visited on people on a daily basis.

And yet, "God is good all the time"? Come on now. Even believers must have a hard time swallowing this one when they read the newspaper. Or is it just a platitude that demands no more reflection than any other that is not meant to be taken literally?

Have you noticed for the past 2000 years that religion has been a joke?

Assuming He caused this to happen?

I'll play Devil's Advocate.

I'm standing on a busy corner, and the small child next to me wanders away from his Mother into traffic. She's pre-occupied on her iPhone playing Angry Birds, and I know she's not paying attention. The child gets hit by a car and dies. It's the Mother's fault for not paying attention to the warning signs and seeing to her primary responsibility to care for her child. Do I bear any responsibility, knowing that it was within my simple power to reach down and pull the kid back up to the sidewalk?

clearly if he is all-powerful he could have prevented it. He created the earth with its unstable atmosphere and grinding tectonic plates in the first place, no?

Santa is good - All the time.

My bad.

Not being English and being a serious fellow, mon ami, sometimes has it's drawbacks.

Your on our side triggered my memory for that link and I was off.

Regards
DL

We may be able to try to blame God for moral evils but not for natural disasters.

To me evil has to have an evil intent and nature does not have intent at all. It just does things mindlessly.

Speaking of mindlessly though, mankind allows about 6 million people to starve yearly so ------.

The problem with God in that equation is not direct. it is the fact that we have not learned to rely on mankind only and have our minds in the clouds thinking that some imaginary super God is in charge and things are going by his non existing plan.

I like nothing better than to discredit that genocidal maniac but unfortunately, natural disasters are off my radar.

Regards
DL

If only that were so my friend. Ask Gays and women if their religiously enforced denigration and discrimination is a joke.

It is my view that all literalists and fundamentals hurt all of us who are Religionists.
They all hurt their parent religions and everyone else who has a belief. They make us all into laughing stocks and should rethink their position. There is a Godhead but not the God of talking animals, genocidal floods and retribution. Belief in fantasy is evil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HKHa...x=0&playnext=1

They also do much harm to their own.

African witches and Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRG9...eature=related

Jesus Camp 1of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOqGhcwwE1s

For evil to grow my friends, all good people need do is nothing.
Fight them when you can.

Regards
DL

Yes.