If there is a God, why do children suffer ? Millions of children in the world are malnourished, hungry, shivering in the cold, without proper clothes, with diseases caused by poverty, illiterate,and homeless. If there is a God, who is all powerful, why does he not give these children food, clothes, medicine, good education and shelter ?
And don't tell me that it is because in their previous births these children did bad deeds. Because then for proving one thing viz. the existence of God, you are presupposing two other things (1) the existence of soul, and (2) its transmigration.
without reason, nothing exists/happens.
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In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
ReplyDelete“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by Her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Beautiful imagination!
DeleteMarkandey: You have asked the old question of theodicy, of why there is evil and suffering in the world if God is loving and powerful. All theodicies eventually fail and we have no answer that satisfies all. This question is the open wound of religion. Christianity's answer is that God, who comes to us in weakness, suffers with us and for us. Not everyone understands or agrees with that answer -- and it should be fleshed out in much more detail than I've just offered it. But your question assumes the existence of a kind of God many of us Christians don't believe in, either.
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ReplyDeleteHuman beings are rational beings and endowed with the ability to choose between right and wrong. Most of the sufferings of on earth are man-made, his choosing of the wrong. If God infringes upon the freedom of the will of human beings, then their uniqueness as rational beings ceases to exist. Then they are no different from irrational creatures or materials. Formation of a righteous conscience/consciousness from early childhood is a solution, I think.
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ReplyDeleteI would rather take the apperceptive route to answer your question. In lieu of asking how can God allow children to suffer, the question that needs to be asked is how can HUMAN-BEINGS in this life, in this earth, in flesh, blood, and sweat, ALLOW children to suffer? That's the germane question that will put the right onus on us -- we who are here right NOW!
We are existential; God is Providential. So, why not we be brooding on what WE fallible human-beings should be doing that we are NOT doing and what we should NOT be doing that we are actively doing and perpetrating to pillage and plunder these children and their childhood?
Blaming systemic and endemic issues on God, fate, and predestination are nothing short of a distant romanticization.
Such oneiric notions are not magical potions to remediate the plight of children.
This includes all of us - notwithstanding esquires, titles, social-status etc. that we hold.
First and foremost, we as human-beings should worry about the children and juveniles in our society, community, and vicinity. In Tamil, there used to be a saying that my Mom taught me way early on -- "ஊரார் குழந்தையை ஊட்டி வளர்த்தால் தன் குழந்தை தானே வளரும்." ("He who takes care of other children's nurture and growth, will have his own children automatically nurtured.")
Are we doing that?
If so, why do we see these children victimized, objectified, trafficked, abused, and left to forlornness?
And when we become a tad more responsible and caring to that child that needs help, isn't then "God" becomes vivified in us?
If you would still want to exact a spiritual answer, I would say, perhaps may be God wants to say, which "grown-up child" is willing to help this "hapless child?"
I rest my case, My Lord! 😊
True - God is an idea not identity!
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INDIA DOES NOT NEED A LECTURE FROM THIS JEW . HE CAN SHOVE HIS ADVISE . . WE KNOW HOW HE BECAME SO RICH , SO FAST .
WE INDIANS KNOW ABOUT ZIONIST DEPOPULATION AGENDA, REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, AND REVIVING DEAD CITIES LIKE DETROIT MAKING INDIA SCRAP GOOD CARS MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF AGE . . .
WE KNOW OF THE CHITPAVAN JEWS WHO ARE THRILLED WITH JEW BLOOMBERG .
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. . . THE LIE OF GREENHOUSE GASES CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING VADAKAYIL . . .
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The question on the existence of God on account of children suffering is rather emotional than logical.
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WE INDIANS DO NOT WANT ANY LARGESSE FROM ZIONIST BLOOMBERG .
HE CAN DISTRIBUTE HIS MONEY AS CHARITY IN USA .
USA HAS 18.2 TRILLION USD NATIONAL DEBT WHICH CANNOT BE REPAID WITHOUT WORLD WAR 3.
THE ZIONISTS ARE EAGER TO START IT WITH FALSE FLAG ATTACKS IN INDIA .
USA IS ON THE ROAD TO BEING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WITHOUT WW3 BAILING THEM OUT BY DECEIT AS USUAL.
21% OF THE US POPULATION LIVES IN POVERTY TODAY , AND THIS INCLUDES 24% IF THE AMERICAN CHILDREN.
USA has the TOP MOST rank in child poverty rates in the developed world.
More than 65% children stay in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program and 35% live on the street, in an abandoned building, or another place not meant for human habitation.
A 2014 report by the National Center on Family Homelessness states the number of homeless children in the U.S. has reached record levels, calculating that 2.5 million children, or one child in every 30, experienced homelessness in 2013
More than 77% of all poor households are headed by women.
Wealth is also skewed in USA , with the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 93% of households. Unemployment rate in the United States is now 6.03%.
While America is the wealthiest nation in the world (due to money held by Jews ) , and has the most billionaires in the world, not a single U.S. city ranks among the world's most livable cities.
America imprisons 716 people per 100,000 citizens (of any age)- one of the highest on the planet.. U.S. has 20 times more murders than the developed world average.
More than half of the most deadly mass shootings documented in the past 50 years around the world occurred in the United States, and 73 percent of the killers in the U.S. obtained their weapons legally.
The U.S. has the highest teenage-pregnancy rate in the developed world.
41 percent of all American workers made less than $20,000 which afford them a very poor standard of life .
The average yank is NOT SO BRIGHT , they have NO head for Math – so they import brains and act as if they do a great favour to the rest of the world..
Only 14 % of U.S. students are proficient in math while in India it is 58% the highest on the planet .
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You are not absolutely right but only somewhat, this is the mystery of life and this is open to discussion.
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The existence of God . arise q ? You are absolutely right . not for children suffering . god is not existence if children happy ,.rationalist said about it .
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SUBJECT : Delhi government mulls setting up coal-based power plant .
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INDIA MUST CONTINUE BURNING COAL TO PRODUCE ENERGY, TILL WE CAN HAVE NUCLEAR PLANTS TO MEET DEMANDS .
COAL PLANT EXHAUST FUNNELS MUST HAVE WATER SCRUBBERS . A CHEAP INVESTMENT . . .
WE INDIANS WILL NOT ALLOW OUR ABUNDANT RESERVES OF COAL TO BE MOTH BALLED .
MAN MADE CARBON DI OXIDE EMISSIONS ARE MINUSCULE .
had not IPCC and Zionist stooge Rajendra Pahauri said by 2035 Himalayan glaciers would disappear and the seas would rise in level, sinking Mumbai? - what what nonsense!!
holding back poor countries and preventing them from developing their infrastructure in the name of reducing CO2 emissions is worsening poverty exponentially . . . this is the ultimate form of racism, economic terrorism against poor black/ brown people ,- such was the game the inner Bilderberg Club, for which they used Al Gore, and gave him a Nobel prize too. . . .
for energy conservation , immediately retrofit DESILTING FACILITIES in all existing dams -
not a single dam in india has desilting facility -- we must punish these dam builders . .
Carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant. . . this must be spelt out by India at Paris next year . CO2 is a naturally occurring trace gas essential to life on earth . . .
Carbon dioxide gets sequestered to keep the carbon cycle in balance. . .nature does this all the time. . .
GREEN FUND and CARBON TAX is now a foul game, to keep third world countries where they are. . .
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. . . .THE LIE OF GREENHOUSE GASES CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING VADAKAYIL . . . .
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SUBJECT : Foodgrain production to decline by 3% in 2014 -15 in India .
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WE INDIANS WILL NOT ALLOW ZIONIST DARLINGS ALICE IN GUJJULAND MODI AND CHITPAVAN JAVEDEKAR TO INTRODUCE GM CROPS IN INDIA .
Lobbying by zionist multinational companied is legal bribing ( includes party funds ) and getting away with it. . .
Lobbyists systematically build up support for their causes. . . They often have previous government officials joining their ranks, leveraging their understanding of how the government machine works , and who all have hand in glove personal chemistry - and who all are in COBRA AND MONGOOSE relationship . . .
No under the table donation is free , this is just the small BAIT fish at the fish hook which will catch the big fish. . . .
Once democracy yields to kleptocracy, good governance is given a silent burial. . . The vacuum thus created is filled by a vicious nexus among politicians, bureaucrats and the corporate who companioning together change the laws of the land to serve their respective interests. . . .
Over a course of time, the corporate interests take over the other interests and corporate start dictating terms to the politicians and the bureaucrats. . .
India has just become free after 800 years of slavery. . .
These huge foreign corporates , as soon as they secure a toe hold , puts all important Indian power brokers in their pay rolls and then they run the government by remote control. .
The wealth of the country now gets siphoned out. . . .
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Bekhudi besabab nahi Ghalib
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Reminds me of Sankey which says "Nature evolves a world full of woe and desolation to raise the soul from its deep slumber"
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