Posted by floatingbridge on July 14, 2011, at 15:39:47
In reply to Re: Sick of the cycles..., posted by linkadge on July 14, 2011, at 13:47:43
Taking a long view here, and following your metaphor, maybe this god is still working out the equation....
Today a kid said to me, just randomly, "You know why we have time? Because we need it."
I find there are enough problems to face. Maybe medicine and/or faith used wisely can be pieces of someone's working solution rather than opponents.
> The benevolent God decided that, only now, after many thousands of years of human suffering in the form of crippling mental illness, to allow human kind to develop psychiatric medicines, with questionable safety, which hardly 'abolish' mental illness by any stretch of the imagination.
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> If God is perfect and omnipotent, he could surely create a psychiatric medication that actually works and doesn't simply trade off depression for diabetes, or cataracts, or cardiovascular disease etc.
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