Dally wrote:1. Did He? Does Genesis really mean that?
Genesis says God created everything. Ergo, God created the worm that eats the child's eyeball for food.
Dally wrote:2. If He did, did He not make man with the capacity to overcome such things?
Ah, another apologist. It's up to the child gathering water, for instance, to "overcome" having a worm get into its eye and blind it?
Let's go back to the question that neither you nor Kirkstaller want to answer: why would a god create such a thing in the first place?
Imagine the scene: it's heaven; the week of creation. God's musing over what to create next.
'Y'know, I think I could create a worm – but what could it eat? Oh, hang on – how about the eyeballs of the offspring of the people I'm going to create in my own image later in the week? Now that's a pretty cool idea!'
And remember – this is a loving, caring god.
Dally wrote:...Perhaps if people like you concentrated on goodness rather than sniping we'd get to overcome our ills that much more quickly? Much easier to complain and mock than be humble, decent and altruistic, hey?
Have a go at Kirkstaller, then. He's the one who doesn't believe that 'good deeds' are required in life, and who has spent countless posts telling others that they're sinners, that they're going to hell, that they haven't done religion 'right' (ie, the way he does it).
Explain to him humility, decency and altruism. And explain to him to concentrate on "goodness" instead of trying to persuade everyone else they should follow his murdering, criminal, evil god – just as long as they do it the way he tells them.
And perhaps if so many people didn't go around worshiping a god that clearly is not good or loving or even basically moral by our evolved, moral standards – indeed, is criminal – then maybe we could "overcome our ills that much more quickly", eh?