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Gas Prices and the Problem of Evil May 22, 2008

Posted by Resident Egoist in : Religion , add a comment

There’s a man going around the country organizing prayer stations at Gas stations asking God to “deliver us from these high gas prices”. Whatever you think of him, you should credit the man for his novel approach to a rather vexing problem.

Religious people stubbornly lack the ability to recognize that everything about God is one gigantic contradiction. Instead of having anything to do with evil, Diana Hsieh has undeniable proof that high prices, being part of God’s plan and will, are the greatest good we could ever wish for. It goes as follows:

…as an omniscient being, God must be already perfectly aware of the high price of gas. As an omnipotent being, he must be capable of lowering gas prices. Since he’s all-benevolent, he wouldn’t allow gas prices to remain as they are if that was an evil. Ergo, high gas prices must be all for the best.

Can’t argue with that, can you? This, in fact, has opened my eyes to the fact that for anyone who believes in an all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful and all-[insert favorite attribute here] deity, it is impossible to logically admit in the existence of any kind of evil since everything is part of God’s will, which is all-good.

Don’t believe me? The Holocaust is considered by many in our society to be the greatest act of evil ever committed. Just recently, a sermon from televangelist John Hagee (a former endorser of John McCain) has surfaced which essentially makes the claim that Hitler was nothing but an instrument of God’s omnibenevolent will.

This twisted view of the nature of good and evil is rather commonplace; just look up Fred Phelps or the Reverend Pat Robertson.

The Sinners Shall Perish June 3, 2006

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Pat Robertson is an instrument of God — in more ways than you’d probably imagine. Apparently God doesn’t use the good old preacher only for publicity … I mean gospel-spreading. No, He enlists the man’s property as well, whenever there is need for “swift justice” … specifically his planes!

Via the Houston Chronicle:

Two pilots were killed and three passengers suffered minor injuries when a small jet owned by religious broadcast Pat Robertson crashed in Long Island Sound while flying in heavy fog. Robertson was not aboard.

The twin-engine Learjet 35 went down a half-mile short of the runway at Groton-New London Airport on Friday, and officials with the National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive at the airport Saturday to begin investigating why.

A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the jet hit at least one approach light mounted in a cove near the airport and landed upside down in about 4 to 8 feet of water.

The passengers were able to get out of the plane on their own and were taken to a hospital, state police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said.

Their names were not released, but authorities said the three were men in their 50s.

They were headed to Connecticut to attend a charity golf tournament at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, said Phil Laferrera, a tournament organizer.

Whenever the good Reverend comes to his senses, I’m sure he’ll corroborate my theory that God rightfully struck these sinners because they were mindlessly heading to the Devil’s Lair, Foxwoods Resort Casino … just as he routinely strikes Devil worshiping minions (e.g: Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina and past hurricane season, and more recently, that massive earthquake in Indonesia).

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