"So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows"
Matthew 10:31
Yeah, right.
So my brother heard a tiny sound when doing his job, inside a storage unit he found a tiny orange kitten. Alone the kitten yelled for its mother who was simply gone. Alone, this kitten had starved for at least a day, perhaps more. So, of course, he brought it home to take care of.
Both he and his wife have been waking up every 2-3 hours to feed the kitten, take care of it, and love it. This will keep going until Monday when the animal shelter is open so it can be taken there. Money spent to feed it, money spent to care for it, time & energy - worry over if its doing well, all for a small kitten.
My brother said "I couldn't just leave it to die."
But apparently god could.
Oh I'm sure someone religious might object that god lead my brother to find the kitten to take care of it, but there are thousands upon thousands of other creatures great & small out there with no one to take care of them, dying slowly from thirst & starvation, suffering. As god does nothing.
Then there are the humans, same story - countless billions have died that otherwise could have lived. As god watches. Doing nothing.
All this suffering proves, beyond a doubt to me - that god could not be loving. If it loved, it would do something, and we are told that god can do anything - yet it does not. It lets all the things suffer.
Some claim this is all due to people rejecting god - as if that somehow shifts the blame away from god, it does not. God made the system - its god's fault it sucks.
So, I have to conclude what flows from logic - that if there is a thing that can do anything, it does not love, if it loves then it can not do everything for it does nothing to help all that it could. Its not there, it doesn't care - all we have is each other.
Value each other.
This cute little life that is a kitten will not be our responsibility soon enough, in fact it wasn't - but it was because we care - because we love. Because we can do something so we must.
Yet god - well. If it even exists it simply does not care.
Or can't do diddly squat.
Kitten, the universe might not know about you, but we do. We cared. We tried our best. We removed a tiny bit of suffering in this world for a little bit of time.
That means we are far better then any and all gods.
Thanks for reminding me of this you cute ball of fir.
