Salandriagado wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:I'm not blaming any victim of cancer. What I'm saying is is that God knows how to do His job, but let's roll with your misinterpretation of what I wrote here.
Yes, you literally are. Absolutely and explicitly. If you're blaming the existence of suffering on anybody but your god, and still claiming the existence of that god, you absolutely are victim-blaming.If you were God, would you kill baby Hitler, knowing that He would grow up and cause the holocaust?
This, this right here? Also victim blaming. Note how you're implying that every child who dies of cancer would otherwise have grown up to do something evil.
And no, no I wouldn't. Because, not being unimaginably stupid, I wouldn't have let the situation get to that point in the first place: I'd either set up the universe such that such things never occurred, or I'd simply tweak which sperm managed to fertilize his mother's egg to fix the problem. Any entity that doesn't do this, apart from being irredeemably evil, is also monumentally stupid, and so is not any kind of god.
I never said it was that the baby was going to grow up evil. Sure, that might be one reason, but it wouldn't be the only reason. (And even then, it would probably be for the vast minority of babies) Maybe God thinks the child will be too weak to handle life, maybe God knows that the innocent baby will be the victim of a tragedy that God wishes to prevent, maybe... any number of things could fall into this catagory.