Ever wonder if there are people out there that God just likes to use a punching bags?

[Lady Freedom]

No matter what these people do, go to church, help others, and all the other stuff that one is to do. God just seems to enjoy watching these people fail and be miserable.

[skygazer]

1. I really don't believe in any god

And while that's not my only, or my best reason, it has never made sense to me that a god could simultaneously love and be concerned about each and every individual and yet stomp on some of them with such seeming glee.

The phrase "god only gives you what you have the strength to bear" or however it goes has always seemed to me like a grim and nasty joke. It says to me that the person who is the strongest gets the most crap thrown at them - how unfair is that? And what kind of incentive to be strong?

No, I don't really see it. I think god is a purely human creation, designed to explain what we can't explain in any other way and to remove the fear of the unknown.

[Shardik]

2. Who? Me?

[enigmatic]

3. no n/t

[Lady Freedom]

4. I can't understand why, if you do good things and not hurt anyone else,...

that you end up sad and defeated. You work hard but it is never enough to keep your head above water, You try to be a helpful as one can be in a household, yet you are causing nothing but problems for them and is never helpful enough or give them enough money ( this includes have rule put in just to keep you in there belief system and enough money over a 3 mouth time that would make it so one could move out).

[Heidi]

5. Even if I were a big God believer, I wouldn't blame God.

I'd blame mean, selfish people who don't give two shits about other human beings.

P.S. Someone out here loves you, Lady Freedom -- and not just because you established Margarita Wednesday in the Lounge. :hug:

:loveya:

:yourock:

[Lady Freedom]

6. Thanks Heidi! This one's for you!

[Heidi]

7. Honey,

I haven't had a margarita in more than 10 years -- primarily because I can't find anyplace in Switzerland that sells margarita glasses. :hug:

You so totally rock! :loveya:

:hug:

[enigmatic]

8. "I'd blame mean, selfish people who don't give two shits about other human beings."

You have the correct answer, as always :hug:

[Heidi]

10. x

:loveya:

[DarkTirade]

9. Oh, God's a total prick.

Just ask Job.

[Lady Freedom]

11. yeah, but things got better for him!

Every time I start to see false dawn coming up in my life...WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. The book of Job would certainly suggest that is the case.

Actually that's not even a case of "punching bag" as much as it is God trying to win a bet with Satan.

And here I thought gambling was a sin?

[Lady Freedom]

13. That's another thing! Mixed signals!

Just when you think you have it all together...BAM! You get told that that's not right! It should be a lot easier to be a good person!

[QMPMom]

14. I'm pretty sure God has me in his sights to make me miserable till I die....

....which, for various reasons, I have determined that I cannot do. I need to find a way to live forever.

[Lady Freedom]

15. That's the worst part about God!

He is everywhere!He can make several people have a miserable life all at the same time.

[Godhumor]

16. It would explain the Buffalo Bills...

*Weeps*