Friday, January 16, 2015

In the Middle Ages and in this Already 21st Century

Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life. In the Middle Ages, when pestilence appeared in a country, holy men advised the population to assemble in churches and pray for deliverance; the result was that the infection spread with extraordinary rapidity among the crowded masses of supplicants. This was an example of love without knowledge. The late war afforded an example of knowledge without love. In each case, the result was death on a large scale. - Bertrand Russell . . . In the Philippines, the most destructive typhoon Yolanda in the Eastern Visayas destroyed billions of pesos worth in farm land, properties, and assets such as homes, hotels, schools, commercial and residential buildings, hospitals, roads and bridges, and also the death of thousands of innocent Filipinos. Quite a lot of them, as inspired by the power of prayer, went inside damaged or ruined churches to pray for deliverance. Instead, they experienced the activated horrors of nature in their respective provinces as willed by God's divine plan. . . - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

4 comments:

Ken said...

Poch, as a Christian I am fully aware that there is the problem of evil. I believe that the only intellectually honest way to deal with it is to acknowledge that God allows typhoons, earthquakes and other calamities to come to pass. The Christian may have “the problem of evil,” but the atheist can only say “Evil? No problem!” Consider typhoon Yolanda and the death and destruction it left in its wake. Now I can only understand you being indignant with God over this if He is really there. But what if He is not there? What follows then? In a godless world, this event had no more significance than a solar flare, or a virus going extinct, or a desolate asteroid colliding with another asteroid, or whole pine forests getting wiped out by Chinese beetles, or me pulling at a skin tag on my neck right now. These are just atoms banging around. This is what they do. I know you don’t believe that God is there, but then you are also very angry with Him for not being there. Deal with it. Blessings! Ken Sidadayaw

Poch Suzara said...

Ken, if you were a God, will you also be that silly as a God too. Is it really that messy or that complicated to be a GOD, huh? For Christ's sake Ken, WHAT IS GOD EXISTING FOR AS HE ALREADY A GOD? To keep on playing such silly games with himself? Cheers. Poch Suzara

Ken said...

Poch, you and I can't be God even if we wish we could. We are the created, He is the Creator. He is infinite, eternal and unchangeable; we are not. You keep preaching the problem of evil even though you have no real philosophical case. I think you're just envious of God's position as the arbiter of life and death. Blessings! Ken Sidadayaw

Poch Suzara said...

Ken, what I am preaching is the good life life, - one inspired by love and guided by human knowledge. I care more about human decency in this world as I do not care for divine vulgarities later in the next world, if any, after death with Jesus. Cheers! Poch Suzara