Yea. Saving millions of jews lives and millions of others from death, destruction and disease is a waste of time, just as long as God helps out with your as you put it, microscopic, problems.
Perhaps, you on your own all along took 4 years to grow and fix your own problems, and perhaps imagined a God along the way?
Either way, this is all irrelevant to the conversation that was being had.
Namely, how a proclamation of benevolence is complicated by the great amount of suffering in this world, both man made and not man made
Waste of time for a benevolent God to prevent this:
Didnât realize God was bound to time and had a schedule
I wish that prayer in school could be given a greater priority. If our students were encouraged to pray, were taught at least three ways to pray, and yes, were periodically given time to pray, would it have a good effect on overall mental health, and would it even be one way to lower the suicide rates in young people. They could also be taught what can realistically be expected from time spent in prayer.
I remember when I was in school it was the fad, then, to simply tell us to writeâthat rules and methodology got in the way of true creativity. Thank goodness that brainstorm has gone by the wayside when it comes to writing. However, have we fallen into the same trap when it comes to teaching prayerâŠthat rules and methodology will just get in the way, when instead, it points the way.
What are the three ways to pray? Canât they be taught this in church?
Most young people, who are not suffering from clinical depression, commit suicide because they are too immature to realize that their unrequited love can wait until they get the age of 18. (Plus a segment being bullied unmercifully).
Although gays do commit suicide 5 times more often than straights, because of the way theyâre treated by family, or again, bullied unmercifully.
The reality is that less than one quarter of Americans attend church regularly. We pray in church, but church wasnât where I was taught how to pray.
Suicide isnât simple. Often, unrequited love or bullying are simply the last straws of more complex issues. Even in countries where homosexual relationships have been longer and more widely accepted that here, suicide rates are still higher.
