Hollywood_Guy wrote:
I am ex-Catholic and today I believe God is cruel or indifferent, or at least I feel like he is. I know a lot of Christians just say that humans shouldn't judge God, but I feel pretty awful looking at the state of society at-large today and at personal issues. I don't really like the idea of Heaven either it sounds like all we will do is worship God 24/7 and have everything today we know besides pure joy or happiness stripped from us. I wish more people empathize and try to understand the reasons why people think what they think about God, if it exists.
Do you too think God is cruel or just indifferent either way, if he/she exists?
I have a strong devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows, (
http://www.motheofgod.com/threads/my-parish-priest.14404/page-2#post-273189) and because of that, for the time being at least, the Will of God, and His allowance of difficult things in this life don't bother me, provided I keep my eyes in Him and not on other the things themselves. The third Sorrow in the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, is very good at dispelling doubts about God's goodness and Love, the third Sorrow is the disappearance of Our Lady's Son in the Temple. Our Lady was Immaculately Conceived and never committed a sin in Her life, She knew that She did nothing wrong and that this was not a punishment from God, She knew Her Son was God the Son incarnate and that this was God's Will; but She didn't know why this was happening, just as She didn't know where Her Son was. When She finally found Her Son in the Temple, did She yell at Him? Dante, in his
Purgatorio didn't think so, and neither do I rather, when I meditate on Her Saying, "Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing[,]" (St. Luke 2:48 DR) I imagine Her hold Her Son tightly and gently whispering the words into His ear.
If Our Lady can bear such an ordeal from God and not get angry at Him, who am I to question God's Will?
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Don't bother with me, I'm just a narrow-minded bigot who does nothing but "proselytize" not because I actually love the Faith, because no one loves the Faith, we're just "using it to justify our bigotry." If you see any thread by me on here that isn't "proselytizing," I can't explain that because that's obviously impossible; because again, all I've ever done on here is "proselytize."
WP is the 2nd worst forum site I have ever been on.