For someone who was raised pentecostal and had initially been a strong believer in the divine and God,
My view of God as an all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful father who will always protect his children was shattered after my admission into medical school and I consistently saw the level of suffering people who were in fact children of God (including actual children) had to go through, many times due to diseases/ trauma they couldn’t have done anything to avoid. Many times the children end up dying after suffering for a significant amount of time.
There is no way I could wrap my head around the fact that an all-loving father who is all-powerful will let such happen to someone whom he claims to love. Even a wicked, abusive father will do all that is within his power to save his child from great suffering that will eventually lead to the death of that child. Many of the people who will read this piece will not have ever seen a child with Tetanus in vigorous painful spasms that eventually takes his life, but a Google search might make it somewhat easier to picture (you can also add terms like opisthotonus, Risus sardonicus, and laryngeal spasm)
There is too much suffering in the world to conclude that God is all loving and all-powerful. I wonder why Christians can seem to see this.
For any Christian who stumbles on this, I will appreciate a comment on why you still consider God to be all-loving and all-powerful despite all the suffering his children are going through, especially in the third world.
Seeing that most people do not think Andrew Tate should be taken off social media, I'd like to know exactly where y'all draw the line on free speech. Or there should be no line?
Andrew Tate has been removed from multiple social media platforms for "spreading hate"
this situation is one of those in which the line between free speech and speech that incites violence, hate, and maltreatment of certain groups is blurred what do you think?
The Economics and politics of Race, an international perspective (Thomas Sowell)
World on fire - Amy chua
Human accomplishments, the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences 800bc - 1950 by Charles Murray
The bell-curve by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein
Depending on the time available to be set aside for reading I might also add
Late talking children - Thomas Sowell
The mystery of capital, why capitalism Triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else