What is just?

When a child is born with mental retardation or a terminal disease, is this due to a genetic (evolutionary) mishap or is it due to a mishap in God’s creation process? I am curious to hear Christians answer such a question.

 If we are made in the image of god, why are some created less fortunate than others? Or why didn’t a perfect god create a perfect world? Can you think of anything more narcissistic than creating something incomplete so that it has to rely upon and worship you?

So what essentially is Christianity? I found a great definition…

Christianity- The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove a force of evil from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree… yeah, makes perfect sense! Right?

It blows my mind that people become so offended if you do not believe in something that there is no evidence of. I have to laugh when people say that it isn’t as radical as it seems or when they discount the things of the old testament as being symbolic because they cannot even back up its absurdity but yet they cling on to the new testament. Well, a virgin birth, walking on water man of miracles is just as ridiculous as a talking snake or living inside a whale. Believing in Jesus would be no different than believing in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or Big Foot. There is no proof of any of them. So, how is it that you know Jesus exists? What evidence do you have? What have you experienced that you are convinced god is real? If you believe you have had any contact with something beyond the realm, you are nuts!

Do Christians not understand that there are thousands of religions in which followers truly believe their own doctrine?  For example, how do Christians discount Islam? There is not more evidence for Christianity than Islam, so what makes Christianity right and Islam wrong? There’s just as many people that truly believe Muhammad is the true profit of god. Are they just less intelligent? The same goes for all religions and beliefs. The difference is that people cling to what they know. People are comfortable with what they are familiar with and this holds true for religion. Your religious views are based on where you are born and raised. Christians believe and fight for Jesus because they only have been taught of Jesus. Muslims cling to Mohammad because all they know is Mohammad.

Which brings me to my next point… Shouldn’t all people have the same chance at salvation? Then what about the 8 year old boy in china that gets hit by a bus before learning of Jesus? What about that 3 month old child that passes away? What about those infidels that are never taught about Jesus? Do the just automatically go to hell? Or do they get a free pass? How is god just?

If there is any god, it would not be a Christian god or a Muslim god, etc. What I’m trying to say is that the only way a man can be both intelligent and believe in god is if he is a deist. There have been many intelligent men throughout history, like our founding fathers who were either atheist or deist. What makes deism intelligent is that it doesn’t require evidence, like atheism doesn’t require evidence. Because deists realize that there are no miracles, there is no communication beyond reality. There is no doctrine of truth. In fact, deists believe in naturalism and reasoning. They didn’t believe in prayer and often they “worshipped the sun.” So what do you believe?