Strange World

Kadizzle has been having a back and forth with a retired minister friend.  Kadizzle has a problem.  Religion makes absolutely no sense. Somebody came up with a rule. Kill Jesus on the cross and your sins are forgiven.  Now who made that rule. Only one logical possibility exist. God made the rule. What was he thinking?  It might have been a simple solution, if God forgives sins just to forgive our sins and call it good enough.  Since God is all knowing, and can do anything, why did he not come up with a different key.  He could have said if you kill all the mosquitos human sins will be forgiven.

The other major thing Kadizzle cannot get his head around is prayer.  Why do you have to ask God to do the right thing?  If indeed God can cure drought, cancer, or cure someone hurt in a car wreck, why doesn't he just do it? Why do you have to get a group of people to beg him?  In our town they have prayer circles.  The implication is that if enough people ask, God will do what is right.  Does God hold polls? None of this makes an ounce of sense.  A baby is suffering from a medical condition.  A group of people ask God to make the condition better.  Why did they have to ask? What kind of God would allow a child to suffer until the right number of people asked him to change things?  Not one single bit of religion makes any sense, yet we are inundated with it.  In our little town we have a dozen churches that sit empty six days a week.  We heat them, we put massive amounts of labor, money, stone, and lumber into them. Meanwhile we have no sidewalks, we do not have a rec center for the kids, and we lack many things that could have made life better for everyone. What kind of God would say build me a big edifice and forget about patching that hole on mainstreet. Forget about paying the teachers a decent salary.  What I want is a lot of nice churches with stained glass windows, and good carpet.  This is pure insanity that adult human beings would take resources from the Earth that could help people live better lives and sacrifice them to a God who wants higher steeples, better marble, and more grandiosity.  It simply does not make an ounce of sense. If someone has an explanation please give it to me. Apparently God has a bigger ego than Donald Trump.