re: #602 Salamantis

For me, her smug insistance that God demands the suffering of little children in order to fulfill some hidden celestial plan is sick, twisted, warped and demented beyond all rationalization, justification, apology, excuse, or redemption.

I’m fairly sure that few, if any, serious Christian theologians outside the Westboro Baptist Church types would claim that God gives little kids cancer because they’ve personally done something to deserve it. Even as a fundamentalist Christian, she exhibits FAIL.

Illness, pain,suffering, and death are just part of life outside the Garden - as are the joys of life. We could have stayed there, metaphorically or literally as one might believe, but Humanity chose to leave.