Bad Things Happen

This one is all about the question, “why do bad things happen to good people?” or “the problem of evil.”

We take a look at how some people answer for God and I give my 2 cents.

Hosted by Trevor Poelman

[theasexualvampire]

But a baby only asks for what it needs to survive: I need food, I need to be touched, I need sleep, and so on. There's nothing wrong with that.

[lainiwakura]

“Babies are narcissists” is an insane take

[aaronc.]

You deserve a medal for watching all these Christian videos to get clips for these.

[michaelweathers]

If you’re parents die it’s simply bc god is starting your super hero/anime protagonist storyline

[Meglime]

My little sister died when I was 14 from a genetic disease and I was SO sick of everyone telling me it was in gods plan and I just had to trust him. She died 6 days after her 10th birthday, how is a child suffering before death in gods plan? It’s what eventually lead me to start questioning god in the first place because I was so angry at these people for telling me my little sisters traumatic death was needed for gods plan. Ugh

[AssassinoJake]

15:08 "God is letting you get beaten down so hard that you become broken and desperate so you will turn to him."
How do these people not hear themselves!?

[hayaokakizaki]

Dennis really called all babies narcissists.

[asianpersuasion]

I remember when someone from my school committed suicide because of the stress in her life. The whole school was put on pause the day after she did it. I didn’t have a connection to her, but I felt a sadness when she was gone. No one at school said anything bad. We were all just in silence and we were there for each other. Years later my mom brought her death up and said she’s going to hell because she committed suicide. I lost it at that point. I told her stop because it was inappropriate.

To this day the thing she said about the student who committed suicide just makes me angry whenever it pops up in my head and it pushed me further from Christianity.

[monkeytime]

"Though he slay me, yet will I trust him"
Sounds like domestic abuse to me

[icemarle]

Oh my god. I lost it when they insinuated that babies are evil. Have you ever seen a baby smile? Pure bliss and innocence. My blood is boiling right now.

[birduniverse]

"God saw it, God could stop it, God did nothing"

[neverhowever]

playing a bunch of christian’s talking about how suffering is good because Job and then showing Will Arnett Arrested Development clips is so god tier

[nicodemusedwards]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he doesn’t exist.

The greatest trick the church ever pulled was convincing us that he did.

[harmony.crossing]

Recently I've started trying to view Christianity as mythology, like Greek and Roman mythology; stories that were told to try to explain why things are the way that they are. The problem of evil fits into this thinking the easiest for me, like somebody couldn't rationalize why bad things happen, so they decided to make a story about how evil came into the world so that they could somewhat process an unanswerable question. This way of thinking doesn't explain everything for me, but it gives me a little bit of peace at night.

[jiralishu]

"They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."
- Sir David Attenborough

[xalamontdragmire]

I always hated this concept, because I’ve been through trauma no one should go through. And my mom, a christian, says I went through it to help others going through the same. But then why are they going through it. We can all turn it into a good way to help others, but it doesn’t mean that anyone going through such a horrid thing is good.
Makes my trauma feel like a joke to these people.

[zilliebilly]

"God allowed this bad thing to happen so that you could grow as a person."

I didn't need to grow.
I needed to live.
And that event made me lose interest in existing.
Character development is only an excuse for artists and writers, not dietys.

[condoris]

I don't know if this fits with the discussion but I've been wanting to just get it of my chest for awhile.
I was born with a neurological disorder called moebius syndrome that essentially causes facial paralysis and crossed eyes. This has caused a lot of hardship my entire life, for instance I have trouble showing emotions and have developed a phobia of looking people in the eyes.
How this relates to the subject is when I went to church I prayed to God everyday for him to take this curse away, and was told that these things are tests God gives us to test our faith, I guess I failed.
I then got the idea that in heaven I would be normal, which led me to look forward to death, which eventually caused me to become depressed.
Now that I'm an atheist I still hate that I have it but I have come to terms with it and just try to live my life, and honestly this pandemic causing us to wear masks helps me feel normal so that has helped a lot

[darknessfall]

I literally remember the pastor of my church when I was a kid, saying if a baby cries and doesn’t need anything (because you just magically know if the baby needs anything) then the baby is lying and you should flick it…. Yeah…. Even as an 8 year old I saw a HUGE problem with that

[KodiaxeMusic]

Dennis Prager unironically calling babies Narcissists was the funniest shit ever. I legit did Mutahar's laugh