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misterskank
If, as Christians claim, God sees all the horrors of human suffering in the world and hears all the prayers of its blameless victims, many of them innocent of any serious wrongdoing (unless you are one of the Christians who think having the wrong belief is a sin deserving of eternal torture), and could return to make things right and indeed plans one day to return to make things right, then God is incredibly stoic, is he not, absolutely incredibly stoic, to watch the Inquisition, Slavery, WW1 and 2, and the Holocaust, to name only a few examples, and do nothing for 2000 years? "Hmm," God ponders, "it appears people are experiencing some pain on earth. Oh, well, I'll get to it eventually. I think I'll wait another millennium or two—plenty of time, plenty of time." But even this is too abstract. We can't feel for millions. The human mind and heart do not respond to suffering of such magnitude. We need to pick one specific example, like the man who was arrested for roasting his toddler daughter in his kitchen oven because she wet her pants. He confessed. "Please, Daddy, let me out," he said his daughter pled with him. "Please. let me out, please, Daddy." Her father did not let her out; nor did God; nor did Jesus. Hey, what's the hurry? Maybe the next millennium or the millennium after that. Just keep pleading, little girl, just keep praying. Your Daddy hears you.