Dear God,

[mia]

Why did you make the world so cruel, when you knew there was nothing we could do about it?

[rusty quoin]

1. My guess, there is no God, but if there is one, there are plenty places in hell.

[rusty quoin]

2. Mia, the world is cruel. But many of us are good.

We actually like people. We are good.

[uriel1972]

9. some of us like people...

some of us are good...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Perhaps God is a psychopathic sadist.

Really, if you're conventionally religious you ought to consider that possibility.

[Major Nikon]

5. Here's something else to consider

For those who believe in god and the devil, how do they really know which one is the good guy?

[NBachers]

4. Sympathetic and non-flippant or -contemptuous response here.

[MineralMan]

6. Returned to Sender: Addressee Unknown.

[guillaumeb]

7. Define cruelty.

Is death cruel?

Is gravity cruel?

[uriel1972]

8. Only things with awareness can be cruel...

death and gravity are not cruel.
A creator which knowingly creates a universe of suffering and pain without relief would be cruel, if such a creator existed.

[guillaumeb]

10. I disagree.

What you are suggesting is a perfect, unchanging universe, which could not exist.

The Creator is aware of that.

[edhopper]

13. How do you know

what the Creator thinks?

[guillaumeb]

14. Do you think a Creator would be unaware of this? eom

[edhopper]

15. I have no idea why a good Creator would

create such a cruel world?
Do we know he is good? Did he create the Universe and then leave it go on untended?
Does he interfere at all with man or the Universe itself?
You seem to know what this Creator knows and does.

[uriel1972]

16. A little arrogant don't you think?

to suggest you know for certain what an all powerful, universe-creating being wants or thinks.

[edhopper]

17. The more religious someone is

the more they usually know exctly what God wants.

As the saying goes "God protect us from those who know they are right."

[guillaumeb]

18. If the Creator interfered,

there could be no free will.

[edhopper]

19. So if you saw someone killing a child

would you interfere? Or would that take the attackers free will away?

And does free will go also to the child, who I assume is not choosing to be killed.

Free will argument for a cruel God is such bullshit.

[guillaumeb]

20. I am not the Creator.

So the question is pointless.

[edhopper]

21. So you would interfere

making you a better entity than your creator.

[Revanchist]

11. Question has already been asked

https://m.

[Dorian Gray]

12. XTC

wrote a song about this.....