divine intervention

[dormant_dragon]

The tsunami disaster seems to have ignited a lively debate in the newspaper letters pages about the existence or otherwise of god.

There's a fairly clear division between two camps at the moment - those who think that if there was a god, he/she or it* would not allow such things to happen and those who believe that god has a plan for the human race. The latter tend to think that humans have a good deal of cheek in ignoring god during the good times and blaming him for the bad times.

I still think what I felt the last time I posted something of a spiritual bent - I like the idea of God the Scientist, the universe his experiment, and the earth only one of perhaps countless petrie dishes. Perhaps somewhere out there is a planet with such a benevolent environment that things such as earthquakes and tsunami never happen. It is possible to conjecture that god has placed intelligent beings in such a world, to see how they respond.

I wonder how his research papers are coming along?



*I have reverted to the masculine personal pronoun for the sake of convenience - after all, God is a boy's name...

Comments

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I'm one for thinking that there may be universes out there that do not follow our physics. But going by Earth physics earthquakes/volcanoes are essential for life. Without them this would be a dead planet, like Mars has become and like the Moon has always been.

As for the tsunami - there's where I believe in Mother Nature. No matter what horrid things we do this Earth, Mother Nature will go on and occaisionally she'll decide to do a bit of smiting. No doubt there are way too many people on this planet and some need to be taken out. Getting humans to do the cull is mission impossible due to our nature, but Nature is indifferent, she just kills many, she doesn't care who they are, their backgrounds or if they "deserve" to die or not.

[wolflullaby.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago.

I believe that humans grow most during and after times of hardship. I would not be the person I am today without all the bad things that have happened in my life, and I would not trade away any of them. I know some people who have had really really easy lives and they can end up spoiled and selfish.

Look at the growth in technology after a war (maybe less so these days). Without hardship people grow complacent. If you are happy with your lot why try to change and improve? I know that if I was never challenged I would be bored. ^^

[jadeisms.livejournal.com]

sorry but it's Allah is raining down punishment upon us due to the fact that we allowed gays into a community (according to some muslim priest)
can't be true though, Sydney wasn't drowned out
sorry couldn't answer this seriously