suffering

[stokeace]

if there is a god who loves mankind how can he warrant such suffering in the world and have little children go missing and be hurt by such evil people?

[annie0000]

People who believe in God would tell you that this is the devils work - as I don't, i won't!

[stokeace]

he should stop it then.........

[Pippa68]

People who believe in God will also say that He has given free will to His people. He has created a world for us to do what we will...and suffer the consequences.

Apparently.

[stokeace]

well if was god id be ashamed of myself pippa i didnt believe much before but all this just confirms my beliefs now im afraid.there is too much hurt in this world.

[pussnboots]

I always think of the time Ken Bigley was facing death and thousands of people all over the world from all religions prayed for him, he still was murdered, whats that all about then??

[annie0000]

Maybe he would if he existed - apparantly the capacity for good and evil exists in all of us and we need to be guided on the right path. IMO there are just some evil g!ts out there and I don't know who's fault it is - the good old nature v's nurture debate, but asa society we need to deal with it somehow - even the death penalty is not a deterrent to these kind of personality disordered individuals - they think that they are perfectly fine it is the rest of us that are loopy.

[Pippa68]

Don't worry stokeace...according to some Christians I know, He will soon be ending all suffering. When? nobody knows..but soon.

Then we will all be living in paradise *rolls eyes*

[stokeace]

i agree pussnboots if there was a god who could stop all the pain and suffering why doesnt he?

[peppy]

My Dad said exactly the same thing after the Aberfan disaster stokeace, when me and my sister and brother were the same age as the poor little children that lost their lives in it .

[stokeace]

lol pippa yes its a load of bull***t methinks

[Pippa68]

Summat do do with Adam & Eve covering their nethers up and eating apples...we are being punished.

I dunno why..apart from nicking a kitkat when I was five I am pretty sure I have led a decent life so far...

[annie0000]

Maybe there was a God, but he got so ****** off with everything, he just moved on to do something else - we are just like some half finished DIY job

[stokeace]

yes peppy and look at the tradegdies and suffering since then and indeed before aberfan...

[rugeleyboy]

i only hope that this poor little girl is found and returned to her family!!

we went to that resort last year and our appartment over looked the church they are all praying in........... my daughter was 3 at that time so i shudder to think of this freak may have been there and eyeing up my little girl!!

[joko]

he's a very petty god too by all accounts... so she ate the fruit when he'd told her not to!?
so what, hardly the ultimate act of evil.
i mean, its not the end of the world is it ...oh...er... actually yes it is, it seems... according to god anyway...

[stewey]

This unfortunate situation goes to prove that "news" is like a pebble thrown into a pond: the ripples get smaller and finally die out. I realize that the child, and family, is British and that the abduction occurred relatively close to you, but in the States and Canada there is virtually no mention of it. I'm not judging that fact, but merely observing.

[red~bez]

Hi Stewey......also the problem is that the Portuguese Police work in a different way.....They have an e-fit of this person which they will not release.

[stewey]

Hi, red. What is an e-fit? I have no idea.

[joko]

its a ''photo fit '' of the suspect.

either a drawing based on a sighting, or an assemblage of ready made bits of features most matching the person.

[cascarelli]

I asked this question about god when my mother and father were dying of cancer. The priest who came to see my mother didn't have much of an answer either.