Dear Rhiannon,
Your desire to believe is touching, but it really is time to grow up and leave the fantasy behind. Humanity does not have the capability to prevent all suffering, or even most suffering. Stop making up excuses for your God. Face up to it like an adult - either the god you believe in creates and allows the suffering of innocents, or you are believing in something that cannot be.
Have the courage to question it, Vlad. Otherwise you're stuck in an infantilising comfort blanket of a belief system.
Where are you coming from in the above post, I have not witnessed humanity trying to prevent all or most suffering, sure! There are some scientists, doctors trying to prevent suffering but all I see is humanity getting in their way, but I suppose necessity is the mother of all, and I certainly don't see any world wide push to cure suffering, it is certainly within our capacity to cure, God has given us that, what I see is, you mate are the wrong colour/religion or you have something I want and I am going to have it, with or without your permission, when humanity realises that we are all in it together then we might see a real push for a cure all, we could start with asking that nice man Mr Cameron to scrap Trident, after all there was an advertisement that told us, all we need to defeat cancer is more funding.
Now there's an idea, scrap all weapons of mass destruction, give the money to the scientists, hell we could use the money to train more scientists, but sure as eggs are eggs there will be some nice chap thinking, now where's the profit in this.
Gonnagle.
