Quote Originally Posted by qualityclrk1 View Post
Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. BUT HE LOVES YOU! He loves you and he needs money....-George Carlin
That "love" is shown through his ability to let you be forgiven, every single thing anything anyone has done is forgivable as long as you accept that gift. Think about how many times a person can sin a day and times that by how many years they live and then times that by how many people there are in the world. Lets say you make rules and 6 billion people disobey 30 rules a day for years and years and years, your going to be pissed and consequences arise! If you think about how many sins people commit in their lives we're lucky to have a way out.


Quote Originally Posted by qualityclrk1 View Post
another good quote:

"I am often made sick when a rich person in a rich nation attributes some minor blessing to God on account of his faith and prayers when the same God allows thousands of orphaned, exploited, abused, malnourished, homeless, innocent children to die in filthy gutters around the world every single day." - David Mann
By saying this he is basically saying God should police the world. If God didn't let these things happen he would take away choice by forcing us not to do those things. So its either freedom to choose or we're all robots and we do exactly what he says to do no matter what and love can not be forced and thats what he wants from us. Its not God's fault that these bad things happen, its ours, he has no obligation to fix our problems that are caused by US because of stuff that he told us not to do!