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Mephi2K
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| Posted 12/13/2001 3:31 AM (GMT -6) |   | Very, Very Important Disclaimer: Ok. This is going to get very deep. I'm warning you RIGHT NOW. If you don't want to bum yourself out, bring up painful memories, or you just can't hack it, DON'T GET INVOLVED WITH THIS THREAD! I don't want to see anyone criticizing the thread or its intent. If you don't like it, PLEASE just move on without posting anything. It's that simple. If you DO choose to go along with this, follow the path with care...
PARTICULAR EVIL
We generally talk about God and evil in generalities. Doc advocates that we have to look at the PARTICULAR nature of "evil" to truly deal with it. Fine. Let's do that.
A mother up and decides she wants to go to Las Vegas with her boyfriend. But she has 3 kids, one 5, one 4, and one a baby. So what's a mother to do? Well, she decides to leave the kids at home. Hey, it's only for 3 days. They can hold up. She leaves some bowls and cereal on the floor where they can reach them and access to a nearly empty refrigerator. Well, the trip took longer than expected by a day. When the Child Protective services found the children, the 4 year old had feces matted into her hair, the 5 year old was darn near hysterical...and the baby was in such bad shape that its diaper had to be surgically removed from its body. You can imagine the damage to its genitalia. The CPS got there BEFORE the mother did.
A little girl gets repeatedly molested by her father. She ends up getting pregnant by him TWICE, having both children. She also has to whore on the street, giving head for money to feed them cause the father won't help. Her mother who is STILL with the father has no problems with the abuse going on.
A 14 year old boy in my care is was born with incurable liver disease. He never had a chance at a real life. He spent most of his young life in and out of hospitals. On top of that he was abused severely and had hallucinations regularly. He died on my unit...on my day off.
I think everyone here remembers my story about poor Joesphine and her not getting healed.
These are just 4 that I can think of off the bat.
In this thread, we are NOT looking at the friggin silver lining. We are specifically looking at the dark cloud itself. I want any and all participants to detail some horrific or not so horrific moral OR natural evil that you know about. It can be your own experience or someone else you know about. It can be some experience in war (like the My Lai Massacre or Auschwitz), or it can be something more personal. In this thread we are going to look evil in the face...and see if we can find God...and how much we like Him if we do find Him.
I say AGAIN. If you can't deal with this, don't. If you are CRITICAL of this, don't bog down this thread with it. This is ONE thread among many. Let's get down and dirty with this. This is what theodicy is all about. Warfare people and predestinationers, bring your theologies and have them tested. Let's do this.
"F*ck God. Where the hell is God when I need him the most?"
---a loved one of a child cancer patient in a cancer center where I did field work for seminary. [Some things you don't forget]
Edited by - Mephi2K on 12/13/2001 08:32:09 AM | | Back to Top | | |
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