lol This is all too funny. The only proof I need is the cold hard facts that I'm facing now and his utter abandonment of me and others. I watch tv commercials about children hooked up to machines, crying because their bodies are dying and really, that's all the proof that I need. Dying children in pain = no god. He lets children suffer. Prayer and faith, words to describe what is more closely definied logically as coincidence, that's all it is. If god loved us and wanted us to follow him, if there was one, then we wouldn't see children scared out of their wits. I wonder how many people here have a terminal disease. To those that do, I exclude you from this and if faith and god gets you through, then great. To those that don't, you can't begin to imagine the pain and the fear to be inside of a body that is breaking down and shutting down. To inflict pain on human beings and to inflict fear on human beings like that is unimaginable and very selfish of a god to give to those he supposedly loves.
We're all terminal.
A lot of people here deny God because of suffering. To them, I ask--why do you only see the bad? There's a lot of good in this world. What about that?
What about the medicines that are curing diseases?
What about the technology that has greatly advanced the comfort and improvement of our lives?
What about the wonderful, kind people who care for others who suffer?
What about the air, soil, water, sunshine that enable us to grow food?
What about pineapple? (Personal favorite--had to throw it in.)
What about the billions of healthy children, free from diseases and suffering?
This is meager list; but the point is that the list of good things in this world is endless.
Suffering children are tragic, but (to me) God has stepped by giving us brains, and means to help them. He sends his spirit to comfort them and the atonement to take away the emotional suffering. He gives them parents, loved ones, for comfort.
Often children suffer because of the actions of adults. Those adults will have to answer to God.
God gets blamed for the bad and given no credit for the good.