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People: God, please stop giving children leukemia.
God: Well now I'm gonna do it harder.
Simple question: is an eternity of joy worth some years of suffering?
Another simple question: is a year of suffering not also pierced through with joy on occasion? Do we not also grow accustomed to what suffering occurs, and thus have moments of liberation from the pain?
Of course, you have to judge Christianity based on the internal logic of the faith... I feel like you are shortsighted here, simply coming up with this idea in your head that kids suffer and then , when in reality every innocent kid inherits the Kingdom of God.
I'd also just refer you back to this:
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Very interesting choice of analogy in the blog.
So we've shifted from supposedly blameless babies being chainsawed by a maniac through no fault of their own to an alcoholic losing a leg resulting directly from his own actions. The argument being that suffering is a way to turn your life around and receive forgiveness for sins.
What sins does a 2 year old need forgiven of? Or did God know they were going to be a sinner in the future and decide to nip that in the bud early? Either way it sounds like that blog is trying to assign moral culpability to literal children for their own sickness, and that's reprehensible.