"nestork" <
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> I think the greatest evidence I've ever come across that God exists, or
> at least that miracles happen, is the preponderance of spirituality
> amongst nurses working in hospitals. That could be because a lot of the
> hospitals in Canada were originally established by religious orders, or
> that both religion and nursing share some common principles, such as the
> notion of helping other people. However, I think the reason so many
> nurses are deeply spiritual people is because they've seen "miracles"
> happen in people's lives that can't otherwise be explained.
>
> I think the greatest evidence that God doesn't exist is that if he does,
> then his managing this planet and universe in a way which is entirely
> indistinguishable from his not existing, or not managing it at all,
> seems to be foolish. How would it be if the President of the USA
> suddenly decided to do a Howard Hughes and become so reclusive that
> people didn't know if he was alive or dead? The result would be a lot
> of speculation and confusion that would serve no purpose whatsoever.
> People would wonder what the President was doing and why? If God
> exists, why is he making such a secret of him/herself?
>
What makes anyone believe that "God is managing the planet" ?
What makes people imagine that God has a need or even duty to "manage the
planet" ?
The very notion that God is one one side and not the other of some human
disagreement is total nonsense that humans invented to justify their bad
behavior.
"Since God is on my side, what I do is justified..".
is total self-justification that has nothing to do with God
Maybe it's not that God has a need to make of secret of himself
Maybe it's God has not need to show himself, whenever people find it
convenient for him to appear.
> How do you explain the senseless killings like the shootings in NewTown,
> Conneticut or the genocide in Rwanda if there's a loving caring God at
> the helm.
>
Why do you suppose that "God is at the helm" ?
That God has a need to be at the helm
Does this planet need to be micro-managed ?
Or has it being doing pretty good with the simple laws that God put in place
to make it work on it's own ?
It's always intereting that the concept of "God as a micro-manager" is
usually voiced by 2 groups
1) THose who claim there is no God
2) Those who claim to be anointed by God
Frankly when you take a close look at either group they are really just
opposite side of the same coin, who really are all about using God for their
own agendas and ideologies.
> Also, the "walking into the light" near death experience that people
> that have been clinically dead but come back to life relate has happened
> to athiests, agnostics and people of non-Judeo Christian religions, so
> it appears that the belief in a Christian God is not a prerequisite to
> being accepted into Heaven (if that's what the light is).
>
> One thing is for sure. If there is a God, this game of "Hide & Seek" he
> seems to be playing with us warrants an explanation.
>
Maybe there is no 'game of "Hide & Seek" '
Maybe that's just some silliness invented by humans for one reason or
another that God really doesn't give a flying rip about..