Why do people always blame God?

[Jainarayan]

Obviously I have a different take on it, though I'm not immune to using fossilized phrases like "God willing" and "God forbid", myself. But I have always wondered why people blame God and point the finger at Him/Her/It for all the bad things that happen. My grandparents were "right off the boat" from Italy, my parents were born in the US. From earliest childhood all I ever heard from them, and aunts and uncles when something bad happened... like a child dying... was a "well, it's God's will". Aw bulldookie! I always felt that if there is a God, he would be just as sad and grieving over the death of a child. I never believed God took the child. So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

 

[Lyndon]

I think its a good example of just how primitive man's understanding of God is, In truth God has to be largely incomprehensible.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

In truth God has to be largely incomprehensible.

But then what use is he?

 

[Lyndon]

That's like saying your professor at uni is largely incomprehensible, therefore what use is he??

 

[Rick O'Shez]

That's like saying your professor at uni is largely incomprehensible, therefore what use is he??

No, because you get taught stuff by a professor and you can ask questions. Also you know he actually exists.

 

[Lyndon]

Some of us get taught very valuable lessons by God, your loss if God doesn't teach you anything!!

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Some of us get taught very valuable lessons by God,

Examples please.

 

[outhouse]

No, because you get taught stuff by a professor and you can ask questions. Also you know he actually exists.

Agreed

Not only that if one stated he was largely incomprehensible, it could be a personal problem, as professors do not keep heir jobs that do not teach successfully.

 

[outhouse]

Some of us get taught very valuable lessons by God, your loss if God doesn't teach you anything!!

In the same context, could we not say imagination teaches equally as well?

 

[outhouse]

. So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

Assumptions? If even meant literally.

Knee jerk reactions, or shallow? similar to praising god for a touch down is some cases.


Good question

 

[Spiderman]

Because God has control of everything. I saw a woman in agony because her daughter was raped, sodomized, and murdered brutally. She will be forever traumatized. God could have told her daughter don't get in that man's vehicle.

God could also console the grief stricken Mother by showing her her daughter in heaven and allowing her daughter and her to converse one last time.

God chooses not to and therefore he is partially at fault for this woman's and everyone's grief.

 

[Koldo]

Obviously I have a different take on it, though I'm not immune to using fossilized phrases like "God willing" and "God forbid", myself. But I have always wondered why people blame God and point the finger at Him/Her/It for all the bad things that happen. My grandparents were "right off the boat" from Italy, my parents were born in the US. From earliest childhood all I ever heard from them, and aunts and uncles when something bad happened... like a child dying... was a "well, it's God's will". Aw bulldookie! I always felt that if there is a God, he would be just as sad and grieving over the death of a child. I never believed God took the child. So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

Because if your god is powerful enough to have prevented it, it only makes sense to say he willed it.

 

[Nietzsche]

Obviously I have a different take on it, though I'm not immune to using fossilized phrases like "God willing" and "God forbid", myself. But I have always wondered why people blame God and point the finger at Him/Her/It for all the bad things that happen. My grandparents were "right off the boat" from Italy, my parents were born in the US. From earliest childhood all I ever heard from them, and aunts and uncles when something bad happened... like a child dying... was a "well, it's God's will". Aw bulldookie! I always felt that if there is a God, he would be just as sad and grieving over the death of a child. I never believed God took the child. So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

Christians tend to believe their God has a plan of some kind, that is detailed down to the spin of a single electron. They would have to, by definition, believe that all things are some kind of message from God, though how "direct" a message is up for debate.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

Because God is supposed to be a loving God, and yet he lets lots of really bad things happen. So it's quite reasonable for people to blame God.

 

[Nietzsche]

Because if your god is powerful enough to have prevented it, it only makes sense to say he willed it.

That too.

 

[Nietzsche]

Because God is supposed to be a loving God, and yet he lets lots of really bad things happen. So it's quite reasonable for people to blame God.

*smack* I told you damn it, not to buy any more of that damn perfume! *punch, breaks wife's nose* Why do you make me hit you!? I love you!

^That seems bout' right.

 

[McBell]

So where does "why does God let it happen" come from?

Most the people whom I hear saying things like "it is part of gods plan" seem to actually believe that every single thing that happens is literally a part of gods plan.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

It's like when bad things happen and people say "Everything happens for a reason". Well yes, but not in the way they mean it.

 

[Jainarayan]

Christians tend to believe their God has a plan of some kind, that is detailed down to the spin of a single electron. They would have to, by definition, believe that all things are some kind of message from God, though how "direct" a message is up for debate.

I guess that's where my different view comes in. It's the Abrahamic God that is believed to be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Even the Hindu gods, as powerful as they are, have to be almost screamed at to get their attention (OK, maybe that's a little melodramatic ).

 

[Jainarayan]

Because God is supposed to be a loving God, and yet he lets lots of really bad things happen. So it's quite reasonable for people to blame God.

That's the impression I've gotten, but then paradoxically, Jesus wept at Lazarus's death. Evidently he didn't plan to raise Lazarus until Mary and Martha bugged him.