ATTEMPTS TO BLAME US FOR OUR SINS NOT GOD
ARE VAPID AND INEPT
Some say all things are part of God’s plan.
Christians say this should not be interpreted as saying that God
agrees with all that happens.
They say there is God’s good will where he works for and makes only
good. God only produces good.
And also that there is his permissive will. That is, “Creatures need
free will respected and as their God, it is my gift to them so I
have to let them do bad things. I could stop them but I will not. I
know I can turn it to a good. That is why I stop some evils and not
others.” Religion says God only permits evil to happen and that he
cannot produce evil. Permitting is not producing.
This is, "I will stop it but not right now". Human nature needs to
make rationalisations and excuses so they swallow that. It is not a
nice trait. Doctrines like that could rise from that tendency. It is
not that they are not true. True or not, we are validating them with
a personality flaw we all share.
Translating that we find it is saying, “God, I only tolerate your
power to do evil when I can find or imagine a good to come from it.”
So much then for respecting free will or God. Selective respect for free
will is not respect for free will.
Another thing that happens with sin-talk, is the focus is put on your intention
first and foremost and not so much on the damage. A system that
makes that much of your intention, to slam your bad ones means your
good ones will be as affirmed as they are slammed, is feeding your
ego. The arrogant person regards their intentions too highly. The
road to destruction especially for those depending on you is paved
with good intentions or overrated intentions.
Back to God. The excuse is that Hitler was allowed to do so much
evil as free will must not be limited and it is his choice. That is
us making out his intention was that important! By extension it
shows what we think of our own!
Back to God's good plan. Is he putting something into our evil
choice to make it turn to good in time? If he has that much control
over our choice then he is not so innocent after all. He is a
producer not just a being that permits. He makes our
choice into a lie that we tell to ourselves that it is all us and
not him.
Is God working on our evil externally? To do that he has to handle
the aftermath. God or not, consequences for doing wrong or doing
wanton and severe harm can be slight or severe or you can mistake
what happens after you do x for a result when it might be a
coincidence. He has to be the reason expected bad consequences will
take place. And he has to be the reason things change for the
better. This takes responsibility away from us. So if I kill John
and break his daughter's heart that would be me causing that. But if
God is the master of the outcome this is not true. It is like how I
cannot be blamed for her heartbreak if somebody gives her some kind
of pill to make her sad. I would expect her to be sad but that is
not enough to blame me.
All who worry about free will and sins and stuff are really trying
to make us see ourselves as accountable for what we do.
Responsibility is the real goal of such thinkers. But God robs you
of it and nobody takes responsibility for lying to you that he does
not rob you. Belief in God robs you if there is no God for you think
there is so in a sense it becomes true for you.
Anyway God has to start working on us as we are resisting him but
that would entail him being manipulative. If you are attached to
your evil then he is making you think you are holding on to it when
you are in fact loosening your grip on it for he is tampering. He
has to speak to your evil side to do this in a sense. “I will not
give back the money I stole but I will give the victim €5 just to
show him I can do that with his money.” So he has to get you to do a
bad thing intentionally but which is not as bad as what you would be
doing if he were not involved. He tempts you to pick a lesser sin.
This is to wean you off what you did. You cannot wean a person off
evil with evil. All you do is make them more presentable.
Christians have a very weak response to all we have learned. They
warn that God is not causing an evil or encouraging us to harm so
that he can use it for a greater good. They say that would be the
evil of the “end justifies the means”. That is telling us we
are wrong to shut us up instead of telling us why we are supposed to
be wrong.
In life the God teachings make two demands. One that you trust all the
bad things that just happen to you and the bad things that people do
to you to be in the hands of God. Good will come.
Better might come but not good. Don’t hold your breath on God being
anything special.
Terrible pain for a moment is nothing but if it keeps coming back
every two minutes then we are in trouble and in time we can be
referred to as suffering. Suffering involves pain as in a pattern.
It is a collection of evils. We know we are scarred by its memory
and fear it coming back.
Some point out that the religious proposition that evil is a
malfunction, mistake or a thinking error for God has nothing to do
with evil and only makes good seems insulting in the face of huge
evil such as the Holocaust and mass rape and so on. They do not know
how to explain what evil is and are saying it is something we all
perceive when terrible things happen. The mistake and malfunction
thing are not then evil but point to its presence. It is about
experience rather than anything else. Something ethereal tells you
evil is there when you see some tyrant killing millions. If the idea
of evil is that vague and that influenced by the subjective then
religion cannot cure it for it is like trying to deal with a disease
that nobody is able to say anything about clearly. It cannot be
done.
The understanding that evil is a fall from God or exclusion of God’s
love of letting him show that love is also inadequate. It really
just goes back to malfunction and mistake. If God is stronger and
bigger than evil then the malfunction and mistake line of thinking
is strengthened. It is a divine person using his mind and resources
against a malfunction. There is no comparison between God and
evil/sin. Think on the
implications of this. Some sense in you picks up evil and it is not
about a God. Divorcing or separating God and evil shows you don't
need God to give moral bans on evil a basis. If God and evil means
that you refute the problem of evil. That problem alleges that God
is in control of evil and he makes it suit his good plan. The
failure of the problem
of evil means evil and God do not agree and if one exists the other
does not.
FINALLY
The notion that God allows evil to happen but not as in command or
as in producing it is rife with contradictions.
God could be putting some flaw in our evil choice so that we
stupidly don’t see that it is going to go wrong and good will
prevail. And he could be working from outside. Either way he has to
be evil himself too. He is a partner in the evil and in fact the
main one for he creates all of you 100% from nothing.
Religion cannot justify belief in a good God but only one that is
better than us it seems! And that better is no compliment.