It’s time for your holiday. You have been waiting for it for a long time. And finally here it comes. It is about time to reward yourself the holiday that you rightfully deserved.
Where are you up to? Europe, Asia or America. Wherever it is don’t forget to take photos of the most famous Church landmark of the place. And also any place of religious interest.
Why not try Philippines. It is the first Christian nation in Asia. Centuries old places of worship and the locals way of practicing religious piety are very interesting.
And after you have taken those pictures, what now?
Make use of them in sending your circle of Christian friends customize Christian post cards which will not only tell them how you miss and remember them in your tour but at the same time the picture tells a story of what you were doing and where you have been travelling.
How can this possibly be? It's easy and simple now a days. With today's internet facilities you can easily find a postcard printing service which will just do everything for you. And no, they are not really expensive as you would imagine. With internet things are done faster but the cost are actually lesser.
Send your love to your friends. Send them your personalized Christian postcards.
If God was all-powerful and all-loving, with free will yet perfectly good, God would create life with similar properties: with free will and perfectly good. Meaning that there would be no human-created evil, and no need for evil, suffering or death in the world in any way. However, there is evil and death in very great quantities, therefore it holds that if the situation was created by a god, rather than natural forces, then such a god is not omnipotent and benevolent. Given that such a god exists, it must be malevolent: An evil god, who created life for the sole purpose of watching life suffer.
ReplyDeleteSuch a god would make life, in its very essence, impossible to exist without death, violence, suffering and struggle. Advanced life, especially, would be inherently prone to nastiness, wars, immorality, killing and causing of suffering. As this is how it is in the world, it holds that the existence of such levels of suffering, if it is the result of intelligent design, is thoroughly evil, and to call god "good" is a corruption of the truth.
As it happens, the world is as we would expect it to be if the designer of life was evil. Ancient religious minds also realized this. The Manicheans explained that this world was the creation of an evil God, and that we had to somehow escape from it. Some people criticize this, asking, if the world was designed by an evil God, why is there some happiness and goodness in the world? Why isn't the world purely evil, with only suffering?
class="IQL"“A Manichean might retort that this is the worst of all possible worlds, in which the good things that exist serve only to heighten the evils. The world, he might say, was created by a wicked demiurge [who] created some virtuous men, in order that they might be punished by the wicked; for the punishment of the virtuous is so great an evil that it makes the world worse than if no good men existed. class="IQR"” "History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, p571