Godless Ranting

I don't think some people realize what an asshole they make God out to be. "My baby almost died at birth, but my friends prayed for it and God saved her."

So if no one had prayed for that baby God would have let it die? What about people all over the world that have no one to pray for them, who have sick children or are sick themselves. God just lets them die? Your baby is special because you know enough people who can pray for it?

Just because a bacteria hasn't evolved up into a higher form if life, doesn't mean there isn't evolution. If a bacteria is good at what it does and has no need to change, it won't. There is no "constant rate" of evolution that has to happen. If some sort of animal evolves to be perfectly calibrated for living in a puddle of water at the bottom of a cave, and that puddle stays exactly the same for a trillion years, that animal will stay pretty much the same for that amount of time. Bacteria don't NEED to evolve into a higher form, so they don't.

I'm just going to get right into this.

So, according to most Christians, everyone has fallen short of the glory of God, we are not capable of living up to his standards and it's only through Jesus, forgiveness.. blah blah blah that we can even hope to get on his good side and get into heaven.

What if I got pregnant and decided that by the time the kid turns 10, if the baby hadn't obtained a doctorate and passed the bar I would punch it in the face 100 times. I know there's no way it could possibly do this, but I'm going to do it anyway. Maybe if the kid begs for forgiveness I'll stop. Boy, what a great person am I! Should that child be thankful I gave it the opportunity to not be punched in the face, by me, because of impossible rules I imposed before it was even born?