Does He really care ? I think not !

The Newspapers were full of it. Even Time Magazine devoted a large part of a recent issue, including the cover photo.

It was the story of a 13 year old boy, who, along with over 50 other men was stuffed by the South Sudan military into a metal container, causing the death of all by asphyxiation, except for this young man.

It all happened in the South Sudan, the “new country” of which the international community had such great hopes, that it would become the beacon of Democracy in a world full of dictatorial hatreds, mayhem and killing.

In fact the South Sudan became one of the worst killing fields between warring tribal factions.

Several newspapers mentioned this brutal killing and that this boy survived “by the grace of God”.

Time's headline quoted him as saying: “I was the only one God left alive.”

I can understand a boy of 13, largely uneducated, but indoctrinated in the christian belief system, which says that there is not a sparrow which falls, which is not the will and the doing of Almighty God,

the all merciful, the all just, the all knowing.

Isn't it just wonderful ? Another benevolent deed committed by this “all merciful” and “all just God”.

What about the other 50+ men, who died a horrible death, by suffocating in an over heated metal container?

If they were all sinners, then why did the “All Merciful” allow them to die?

If there were some just men among them, why did the “All Just” not save them ?

Why did he allow this indescribably brutal act's happening ?

If this boy survived “by God's grace”, where is the grace for the other 50 ?

In fact, where is the grace, the benevolence, the justice for all the millions who died what is an unjust death by all standards ? Even by the standards of a so-called God ?

Of course, if you read the Old Testament you are confronted with a “God” who orders the most heinous crimes and, in fact, commits some of the worst mass murders himself, and over the millennia has stood idly by when evil men killed millions upon millions of their fellows.

So, please don't tell me that the survival of one out of fifty in a metal container in the South Sudan was an act of a gracious, forgiving, all loving, and just God.

It was more likely a coincidence, that this lad was low down in this container, maybe close to a small opening through which he could breath a little. Such a lucky circumstance probably saved him.

But certainly not a concerned God.

Bertstravels

has his doubts about the existence of God,

but he has no doubt about the non-existence of a concerned, caring God.