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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: God and suffering
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 12:53:21 EDT
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>> How appropriate that you select an authority on comedy to support your
>> beliefs.  :-) [HUYBENSZ commenting on Frey's quoting "god" from the
		  film "Time Bandits" as answering the question "why" with
		  "I think it has something to do free will"]

> True, but who's going to end up doing the laughing?  And I don't mean that 
> the people in heaven will sit up there laughing at those in hell, but God
> says that in heaven there will be no more tears; only joy.  So I'm counting
> on a lot of laughter too.

Some God you envision.  Terry Gilliam (not Monty Python), who made "Time
Bandits", quite obviously intended the introduction of Ralph Richardson as
God as a very cute bit of satire.  Sad that those who are so entrenched in
their beliefs didn't get the joke.

>> For example, I can choose to fornicate whether or not earthquakes kill
>> thousands in Mexico.  

> This is always going to be the best question (again in my eyes at least).  I
> struggle with this one, trying to decide if these are the result of man's
> original sin and that the whole nature of God's creation became flawed or
> if God willfully causes them (rather than letting them occur).  It's a good
> qustion.

And one with a simple answer if you don't make strange presumptive assumptions.
Neither.
-- 
Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in
Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese...
				Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr