God created evil, God created weeds.

[Azariah]

God created evil just so good people can do something. Remove evil.

just as God created weeds so gardeners can root out the weeds and make their garden beautiful.

 

[Colster]

Then would somebody please explain why God gave innocent children horrific disfigurement, disease, and cancer. Did he also want these innocents removed from the his garden of Eden.

 

[randomguy]

I created an omelette and my cat ate it while I was on the phone, should I blame God or the cat?

 

[Azariah]

i dont mean to upset you

 

[Finished]

God created everything to be in harmony on a massive scale. Unfortunately the devil gets second turn at everything and fucks it all up.

 

[TheRealCallie]

The term "weed" is subjective. For example, let's take dandelions. Pretty flowers to some, medicinal to others, but nuisance weeds to others.

 

[ewomack]

I like David Attenborough's view on this:

 

[The Wanderer]

There was this mother and stepfather, they had an autistic son. I don't know how badly autistic but he was on his way to university so he must have been at least somewhat functional to start with. For some reason they just didn't want him to leave.
So they locked him up. They beat him, starved him, left him sitting in his own feces in a basement for months. When the police found him he was afew days off of death, the hospital staff estimated he had been fed on a couple of hundred calories a day.

Now, for me the explanation would be pretty simple. Mental illness caused by traumatic experience, by some sort of genetic defect or an unfortunate combination of the two. No evil, just a sad waste brought to you by the misfiring of mother natures meaner impulses.
But for you? Well you have abit of a problem on your hands with this. Because the "evil" can never be removed. It happened. Thats a man who will never be the same. Hes going to know for the rest of his life that his family viewed him as an animal to be tortured, nothing more. Theres no "I got the bad guy, now everythings fine." Thats not how life works.
And what of the couple themselves? Were they created "evil"? Well then how could they be "good"? Thats like me purposefully infecting someone with malaria then demanding they become healthy.
If its part of a plan then it can be nothing more than suffering for sufferings sake.

 

[TogetherAlone]

There was this mother and stepfather, they had an autistic son. I don't know how badly autistic but he was on his way to university so he must have been at least somewhat functional to start with. For some reason they just didn't want him to leave.
So they locked him up. They beat him, starved him, left him sitting in his own feces in a basement for months. When the police found him he was afew days off of death, the hospital staff estimated he had been fed on a couple of hundred calories a day.

Now, for me the explanation would be pretty simple. Mental illness caused by traumatic experience, by some sort of genetic defect or an unfortunate combination of the two. No evil, just a sad waste brought to you by the misfiring of mother natures meaner impulses.
But for you? Well you have abit of a problem on your hands with this. Because the "evil" can never be removed. It happened. Thats a man who will never be the same. Hes going to know for the rest of his life that his family viewed him as an animal to be tortured, nothing more. Theres no "I got the bad guy, now everythings fine." Thats not how life works.
And what of the couple themselves? Were they created "evil"? Well then how could they be "good"? Thats like me purposefully infecting someone with malaria then demanding they become healthy.
If its part of a plan then it can be nothing more than suffering for sufferings sake.

Ok I have to ask, are you implying autism is a defect/a sad waste?

 

[CenotaphGirl]

Spread...like a weed you spread... all throughout my head...ugh this thread has put that song in my head.I think in life theres a ying and yang... I love the idea with the entanglement of positive vs negative.

 

[U-122]

Then would somebody please explain why God gave innocent children horrific disfigurement, disease, and cancer. Did he also want these innocents removed from the his garden of Eden.

Exactly! Clearly god was smoking something when he/she/it was "creating" things. I only blame my parents for creating me and it really happened, unfortunately.

 

[Nicolelt]

A weed is a plant out of place.

So does evil depend on where you are?

 

[TheSkaFish]

I thought God created weed because we were all stressed out, and could use some time to get the munchies and laugh at nothing for hours?

 

[The Wanderer]

Ok I have to ask, are you implying autism is a defect/a sad waste?

*What*?