Hey I don't know if you guys are changing the subject or what but I was reading this and WOW, I got scorched.

But I do have one thing to add. ABout all the 9-11 stuff and "if there's a God why did this happen" and "God works in mysterious ways".

Did it ever occur to anyone that not everything is God's fault? What if, in some situations, God isn't working mysteriously at all, it's just that some knucklehead decided to go screw things up? I know people are so used to thinking that God is in control, but after a while that turns into "God moving chess players around on a board", like we are just helpless little creatures that God is having a field day with.

I believe God is in control, but there is a balance. Even in the Bible, it clearly shows how God has given people a free will and many people have used their free will to screw up their own or someone else's life, AND IT WASN'T GOD'S FAULT at all.

Do you ever picture God, like I do, as banging his head against the wall because another idiot messed everything up again? "Okay, let's move on to plan W!"

So this is what I don't understand about atheists who use this as a reason to not believe in God (not that believing in God is the issue--the devil believes in God). They say that because bad things happen, God can't be real or he must be evil and just like to wreak havoc on the lives of his "chess pieces." I hope I clearly got across what I was trying to say.

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