Nov12 Where’s The Helping Hand? (Pic)
 

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  • TylerV
    There was a cartoon I once saw. It was two turtles sitting on the sand. One turtle says, "When I die I'm going to ask God, 'Why in the world did you not do more to prevent or to correct pain and suffering?'" To which the other turtle responds, "I'm scared that He will ask me the same thing."

    Pontificate all you wish, but the fact that you use the suffering of others as leverage in an argument is reprehensible. You use their suffering to try and prove your atheism, but what does atheism have to offer them? If appealing to emotion (the method of your argument here) is a valid form, then it is just as valid for me as a theist to use it. Now this is not an argument that I would normally make because I think appeals to emotion are NOT valid arguments, but if you use them, you must feel that they are and so why not help myself as well.

    If we can appeal to emotion, what does atheism have to offer the poor, the oppressed, the sick, and the dying? "Hey, tough luck. That's just the way it goes. Cheer up, tomorrow you'll be worm food and anyone who will miss you will be worm food shortly after and so your suffering wont even be remembered in a couple years! And after all, you probably deserve what you got because you are clearly the unfit to which the fit (the oppressor or the disease killing your body) are surviving over." The atheist is strangely missing at the bed side of the sick and the dying. They may volunteer their time, but they have nothing to offer.

    Whereas the theist, and Christian in particular can offer hope of heaven, restoration, peace with God, comfort for those mourning, and can place a moral conviction on its adherents that we SHOULD (even if sadly we arent) be doing more to alleviate the suffering of all people because they are all made in the image of God.

    So to use the suffering of others is a shallow claim because your answer to the problem of suffering is infinitely worse. You accuse God of not doing enough, but I accuse atheism of not doing anything at all.

    That is, if appeals to emotion are valid.
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