I received an e-mail today with the following prayer in it.
Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen
The recipients of the e-mail were asked to keep the e-mail circulating.
This struck me as a little odd. Who created cancer if not God? What makes the author think that God will now help us to cure cancer?
It seems to me that God has been getting a free ride on this one for a long time. If he exists and is responsible for cancer then he should be rightly condemned for it not petitioned for aid.
Humans have made great strides against cancer and will one day conquer it no thanks to the deity and the gratuitous suffering cancer has caused to millions.
He should be ashamed of himself.
However, it really looks like there is no god and that gratuitous suffering is part of life in a universe that doesn't much care that we are in it.
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