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one thing in particular has always struck as just plain stupid in christianity ( i suspect a similar situation exists in most other relgions, but i know most about crhistianity due to having been raised a christian), and that is the devil. If god is omnipotent then surely he would have the power to obliterate the devil, although according to all reports he hasnt, the devil still manages to steal some of gods people from under his watchful eye. why does god allow it? ive heard apparently that the devil has been mortally wounded and is dying, but trying to take as many people with him as he can. why does god allow it? seems pretty shoddy to me from an all powerful god.
If anyone is now thinking free will, i have several suggestions as to what you can do with those two words. the most polite is forget them, it balatanly exists, but is used far to much by christianity to gel over all manner of evils and discrepancies. god may have given us free will, but an absence of god would be an equally valid explanation for free will. if god had made us and wanted us to follow him and wanted to protect us, surely the last thing he would have done, would have been to allow the greatest tempter to give screwing the human race over his best shot. free will means we can choose to follow him or not.
The other major thing that has always buged me, is the garden of eden story. we screwed up due to devils temptation, so what does he do? he distances himself from us, leaving us to fend for ourselves in our hour of greatest need. once again, he recieves the GW Bush award for intelligence. that move was almost surrender, " uve sinned, i've lost you, therefore im distancing myself. its like your best friend suddenly saying "ok u stole some of my sweets, i forgive you, but from now on your only allowed to text or email me, though i may phone you if and immediate family memeber dies". "to err is human, to forgive divine" anyone else starting to wonder?
The most polite suggestion i have for the first person who comes out with the "the ways of god are to deep for our mortal understanding" would probably get me chucked off this forum. so lets just say dont give me that crap please.
"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"
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