Write story : ........thank God, we all are safe.
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I believe this is one of the most contemptible statements that I heard after the terrorist attacks in Hyderabad(or any such attacks anywhere in the world) – obviously uttered by those (and their friends and family) who had a miraculous escape thanks to a “merciful and compassionate god”. Thank “God”? Seriously? How does one interpret this? That God is powerful and compassionate? That he decided to be your personal bodyguard for a few minutes? And that he suddenly ran out of time, compassion and mercy hence why he couldn’t save all those who lost their lives or suffered horrific injuries? Or that the victims were somehow not as worthy of god’s grace as the survivors? How about the terrorists? Surely they would be thanking their god too? Does this mean their god beat yours? And you just wait for your turn?
Haven’t you had enough of god?
Oh yes, I understand how this works. This is all part of god’s plan, right? I am committing blasphemy by criticising god because I am not worthy of understanding his will, right? I am a mere mortal who does not merit god’s compassion, may be? I am just a pawn in his game and perhaps all I can do is to pray for wisdom and strength? Sure, try saying this to those who were brutally maimed or violently killed in the “master plan” and see where it gets you.
Haven’t you had enough of god?
Oh sorry, I get it now. None of this has anything to do with god. God is actually extremely compassionate and merciful but he has nothing to do with how humans (well, I am usually a little generous when it comes to defining ‘humans’) kill one another in the name of god. God has given us freewill so he cannot interfere or intervene anymore, no matter what we do. If this is true, there is no point in thanking god, right?
Haven’t you had enough of god?
Or may be God is omnipotent but…..well, the argument fizzles out even before I can complete it. If he is omnipotent, why doesn’t he just stop these monstrosities? May be he is omnipotent but not compassionate enough? So, again, there is no point in thanking god, right?
Haven’t you had enough of god?
From time immemorial, we have always had gods – and we have always had killed in the name of gods. And we continue to do so. Funnily enough, every tribe, every race, every nation had, and continues to have, one god or the other that they worshipped, revered and believed to be the only true god. From the most uncivilised tribes you can think of living in the wilderness to the people who flew planes into buildings to the people who were in those buildings – everyone seems to have an unflinching faith in a god or in a multitude of gods. Surely they cannot all be true? So, which one of those gods is the true god? And assuming we find one, doesn’t he make the rest of the gods just figments of our imagination?
Haven’t you had enough of god?
Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that there is one true god and that he takes different forms – hence the multitude of gods. Why did he take so many forms? Why did he come up with so many books – each of which claims to be the only true word of god? Oh yes, I know the answer – usually quoted as the last refuge of faithful – he is testing your faith. Really? Let’s just step back and look at it again. God is powerful enough to create the whole universe; omnipotent enough to create life but, for some deep, unknowable reason, creates different races, different cultures and different forms of himself with different – and sometimes conflicting – sets of beliefs – just so he can test us? To what end? There is no answer because we are not deemed worthy enough to figure out the mind of god, right? But in the meantime, god is happy enough to sit back and let the believers maim each other – of course, in the guise of a test. What does that make him?
I had enough of god!