lovelylil,
Are you really concerned about the parasites in the water?
What I think about this is irrelevent, my point is that your god obviously doesn't care or he would do something about it.
well then what are you doing to help the situation?
Again you attempt to shift the topic of the thread from "If GOD truly cared about people wouldn't He DO SOMETHING by now" to "If HAPPY GUY truley cared about people wouldn't He DO SOMETHING by now". What I have or have not done about the situation is irrelevent to the topic of the thread.
Instead of blaming God because he made the parasite, why don't you try to figure out a way to get rid of it.
Whether I have done so or not is irrelevent to the topic of this thread. God, according to you, is all powerful, yet he allows millions of people to be blinded by a cause that he could easily fix.
And don't you tell me for one second that it is not man's fault the water is not cleaned in some countries because that is total hogwash.
I never said anything about that. I said that the worm in question, Onchocerca volvulus, lives in fast flowing rivers which are not polluted. So, your bringing up your "its all mankind's fault because they pollute the water" is another attempt to shift blame onto the victims.
There are enough financial resources in this world so that ALL PEOPLE should have clean water filtration systems but the fact is that Man does not share his resources equally becuase he is too concerned with himself.
Totally irrelevent since the Onchocerca volvulus cannot be controlled by filtration systems. Since you won't educate yourself on river blindness I will explain it for the benefits of other forum members. The river blindness disase is caused by the bite of the black fly. TheOnchocerca volvulus lives in fast flowing rivers and gets into the black fly, the black fly bites humans and passes Onchocerca volvulus into them. You can filter the water all you want and you won't stop this process. I'm not sure how you use filtration systems on fast flowing rivers though.
Why should some countries posess all the wealth while others are still not developed due to lack of money? If man applied God's standards then some monetary value of all people would go to the poor, remember the gleaning of the fields in the OT and how some of the wheat had to stay in the field so the poor can eat it? Also, how many poor lived under King Solomon's rule?
Totally off topic from the example I gave and totally off topic from the topic of this thread. The river blindness disease does not differentiate between rich and poor.
Any fool can sit back and blame God for all the ills of the world and cry that he is not doing anything.
Again you shift the blame on the victims. And you demonze the messenger. You call me a fool and say I am whining. I merely gave an example of a condition that is not caused by man's "evil" or by man's inability to govern himself, but is caused by the way your god created the black fly and the Onchocerca volvulus, and I pointed out how easy it would be for God to do something about this horiffic disease and that taking such action would not infringe on human's free will, since the behavior of the black fly and the Onchocerca volvulus is totally out of human control, so for God not to act shows that God either does not care, does not notice, or lacks the power to do so. You call me arrogant yet you continuosly insinuate that I sit around "doing nothing" when you know nothing about me or what I do or don't do about suffering in the world. Which is a very arrogant stance to take.