I am not religious, however, If God is good and the Devil is evil.

[shockey80]

God needs to get to work. The Devil is working over time with no days off.

[wryter2000]

1. I can tell you're not religious

That's not how it works.

Edited to add: There are plenty of "Christians" who think that simplisticly.

[USALiberal]

6. Most do! Nt

[wryter2000]

9. You have some data on that?

You know of a study that shows that?

[Blues Heron]

10. the concept of god is highly simplistic in itself

God: "I'll just snap my fingers and make shit happen" - yeah that's the ticket!

[wryter2000]

22. I'm sure glad I don't go to your church

I’d be late for the door in half an hour. Borrring.

[RKP5637]

2. Send money first so god can get to work! n/t

[ret5hd]

3. God is obviously an old entitled white guy...

that thinks everything should go his way just because that's how it should be.

[CaptYossarian]

5. Wouldn't that make him an old, entitled orange guy?

[tazkcmo]

4. I was told today

That god has a plan. I responded that his god's plans always involve lots of dead people so count me out.

[WhiteTara]

14. don't you mean ALL dead people

I have yet to meet anyone who got out alive.

[walkingman]

7. I've often wondered...if God is omnipotent? Didn't he cause the problem that you are praying for? As

you can tell my childhood indoctrination did not work.

[BluesRunTheGame]

8. The devil has more followers.

Whether he exists or not.

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. I would argue with that.

Devil worshipers are rare indeed.

[BluesRunTheGame]

26. I wasn't speaking of actual church of satan members.

I was thinking more along the lines of Trump voters.

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. 👍

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. The fact is, when looked at completely objectively....

And using any and all information about the two entities at hand, Satan has clearly gotten a bad rap. The God of Abraham caused WAY more death and suffering to humanity than Lucifer EVER did.


Al Pacino put it well;

[GoCubsGo]

12. "God" has a strong tendency to sit things out at times like this.

He sat out the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, many millennia of slavery throughout the world, Stalin's gulags, the Armenian genocide... If he/she/it didn't intervene in any of those, it's pretty obvious we won't see it here, either.

[Docreed2003]

16. Wait...

Are you telling me we aren't Gawd's chosen country just like the bibull says??

[GoCubsGo]

19. Yes, that's part of it.

Also, if Gawd actually exists, he/she/it isn't going to bail out us mortals. BTW, you misspelled "BuyBull."

[Docreed2003]

27. Lol...my lack of faith is clearly showing

Thanks for correcting me lol

[Roland99]

13. Love this Richard Feynman quote...

“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe...can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has.”

This “god” would then be a narcissistic, sadistic asshole

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. I've always loved that quote also. nt

[dalton99a]

15. .

[WhiteTara]

17. If God is everything, then the devil

is part of God, eh?
Buddhist thought:

No Mind, No Buddha
No Buddha, No Mind

i.e., we are God/creator of the dream and we choose good or evil in Mind.

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. My move from Catholicism to atheism

started the day I realized that other than as a convenient scapegoat, the "Devil" couldn't exist. For such a creature to exist would be a complete contradiction/mockery of the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent "God".

[Thomas Hurt]

20. God is loving, all knowing and all powerful...outside our reality and time.

anything that happens on this world God allows or causes.

Under that theology, God either smites us or God allows it.

But yes the usual story is God has a plan and tragic or not you will suffer it.

COVID is part of the plan, that is why some of them line up in spite of the admonition against testing God.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. Or, ya know, there are no supernatural beings.

We are responsible to nothing after death. That is why it is incumbent upon us to do the best we can with the world and time we have.

[Marrah_Goodman]

24. You only get the good stuff after you die

It's at death that these evil people will finally get what's coming to them. While they are alive, they get the good life and you get the struggle.

I stopped believing in some sort of Just God a long time ago. All I had to do was look around.