I just don't understand the sentiment expressed by you and a couple of others in this thread. I can certainly imagine that God cares and wants to be involved, and I believe that God does care. But I don't see any moral obligation to interfere in our fate.
Phat said that God owes us
nothing. You seem to agree that parents owe their children
some things.
I don't think that God owes any individual some sort of interference, but he owes us, as his children, at least some things. Like you said, a good upbringing, at least, fits the bill.
Treated properly, the earth is reasonably safe, and sufficient for billions of us to live for a nearly unimaginatively long period of time. It looks to me like we are going to screw that up. Why isn't that on us?
It is. And, assumingly, God has provided us with that good upbringing. I didn't mean to imply that he owes us more stuff right now. I just think its wrong to say that God owes us
nothing. Especially if he's gonna say he's our father.
ABE:
Why isn't that on us?
Given an all-knowing Father, wouldn't they share some of the responsibility in setting up their creation with the foreknowledge that we'd fuck it up?
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : see ABE
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : typo
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