God is Good? Thank God for saving this woman from cancer?
To believe that an all-powerful God who could have stop this woman from getting cancer in the first place, waited for her to get cancer first and lose her right breast instead, before "saving" her. Then to thank and praise God because of it, causes COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.
To reiterate the Riddle of Epicurus:
God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak - and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful - which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?
Why don't people ever mention the researchers and the doctors, who spend the majority of their short lives in this world, to finding a cure and performing life saving surgeries?
Is it because people don't realize that "God" is a metaphor they use for all the good things that happen to them, and not the supernatural being created by illiterate bronze age tribesmen more than 5,000 years ago, passed down through generations as religion?
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