So I just finished watching Blood Diamonds again, and well at the end of the movie they said only 40 countries signed an accord that would stop the illegal sale of diamonds, and that saddened me. There are 200 countries in the world, how can only 40 countries sign an accord that stopped the illegal sale of diamonds. Diamonds production puts a lot of people in third world countries in misery.
I came across a quote that says "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound"? When did Human Life become so unprecious? Why has it lost so much value? I discovered thatbefore governments decide whether to go in and stop a genocide, they crunch numbers and see how much money it would cost to go in and end a massacre. Such coldheartedness, how the hell does money compare to Human Life? This is a classic case of "what will it profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his/her soul". Honestly, humanity has lost it's soul. Human Compassion is now a joke, just because you say "Aww" and "Wow" after hearing about suffering does not mean that you are a compassionate person.
When I was a christian, I use to honestly get depressed when I taught about why God would let children die in Africa from every sort of thing. I asked myself, why would a God who's supposed to be loving and good let innocent good people die? Why would he let women in Congo get raped repeatedly on a daily basis. And I came across this verse in Roman's 9:15 and I swear that verse changed my outlook on life forever. The verse says "15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy"
This verse really struck me as frigging cold, so as I dey like this the only reason am doing well is because God decided to have mercy on me, he showed compassion to me and that is why I am able to jolly. But for the loser woman/child/man in Uganda, Somalia, indonesia, pakistan, Sudan etc obviously their own luck has run out. Our heavenly father, has chosen to not show mercy/compassion on them, and well I guess that is their lot in life. This is basically my attitude right now, there is no need to be having pity on such people anymore because they are obviously losers. If God in all his wisdom, could not see it within himself to have mercy on kids such as this child who was stalked by the vulture, why should I a mere human being now have mercy/pity on such a kid? I mean God is wiser than me isn't he? He has already showed that the boy below is not worthy of his mercy. I wonder what I have that that little boy does not have, that the almighty would choose to show mercy/compassion on lil ole me and then neglect to show the same mercy on this boy being stalked by a vulture waiting for it to die.
If you were God for a day, would you have mercy on this kid?
In conclusion, most of you might not agree with my analysis of this. But more than one of you have wondered about why God would let kids suffer in Africa, Asia etc. Why woulld a loving God let kids live in such misery? I hope that I have clearly proven to you all why such things happen under the almighty's watchful eye. Because he alone decides who he'll show mercy to and who he won't show mercy to.
What makes a man God?? Permit me to qualify that question, I mean to ask what qualifications must a man have in order to be considered a God.
1.
Someone told me that Jesus was obviously a God because he performed miracles.
But according to the bible, Jesus was not the only person to perform miracles, Paul, Peter, Prophet Samuel Moses, Paul, Peter, Jeremiah, Isiah, Ezra etc performed miracles. So obviously if it takes performing miracles for one to be called a God, now all these other people would fall under that category.
2. Jesus was a God because he 'rose' from the dead.
If it takes 'rising from the dead' for a man to be considered a God then Lazarus would be considered a God as well. Now some of you will say well, Lazarus was raised from the dead by Jesus and I will say that Jesus was raised from the dead by God.
3. Jesus was a God because he died on the cross and 'atoned' for our sins.
The fact that a man is crucified and allegedly dies for the sins of other men is not proof enough that the man is a God.
In conclusion, the crux of the matter is that I believe it is impossible to state categorically without proof that the above qualifications made Jesus a God.
What kind of world we would have if everybody went around respecting each other's views? What if everybody had decided to respect "Hitler's beliefs" concerning the extermination of the Jews? There wuld be no Jews left. Or maybe if the slave abolitionists had respected the slave owners "beliefs" in owning slaves? There would surely be so many slaves around today. My point is this, everybody and everyone is entitled to his/her beliefs, but not every belief is entitled to my "respect". I honestly do not get how people can get by in this world perfectly fine without knowing anything.
Ask the average born again christian or muslim about how they came to trust somuch in their faith, they'll probably start by saying "If you know what God/Allah/Jesus has done for me you would understand why I believe in him somuch", now this is all fair and all but try getting them to share what God did for them and they will narrate a story of how they were in desperate strides and a miracle happened and something good happened to them, the 'something good' that happened is now translated as coming from "God".
First, this style of argument is an informal fallacy and it falls under False Cause Fallacy.
Christians "illegitimately assume that one possible cause of a phenomenon is the cause although reasons are lacking for excluding other possible causes" and they do this time and time again, you get a new promotion at work, you get an A on a test, you get a new car you and attribute all this good things to God when it could possibly be other things or even other "supernatural beings" like the devil doing all this good things for you. A whole lot of us commit informal fallacies almost everytime when trying to prove why something good has happened to us, we immediately assume that it must be God responsible for the good in our lives, but we never attribute the bad things to God, we prefer to blame that on the devil but the almighty never gets any blame.
Now to be fair to both sides, when you meet an atheist who tries to say "God does not exist because he cannot be seen", then that also is a fallacy. Just because you cannot see God, does not mean that he does not exist.
Yesterday, I had this question up on my facebook status and more people felt that Africa would have been a better place if the Europeans never colonized it. Personally, I disagreed with the majority and this is why.
1. Before the Europeans came, we did not know Jesus, we did not know about christianity, and we were definitely headed to hell. So we should be grateful that the Europeans brought the word of God to us and helped us get consecrated to the almighty.
2. We would definitely still be killing twins, the practice of killing twins brought about so much turmoil to and ended after the Europeans banned the practice.
3. Women would still be second class citizens, infact any woman right now that supports the other argument that claims that Africa was better off without the Europeans should bear in mind that women in those times where meant to be seen and not heard.
4. The Europeans provided structure to our way of life. They also brought to us concepts such as democracy that we did not have in our various communities before they came.
