Daffy Duck,

<<The humanly created world is an intrinsically unfathomable beginningless and endless pattern patterning in which everyone and everything is instantaneously interconnected. In which we are unconsciously entangled.>>

Instead of giving us your philosophical rave, why don't you address the content of my article?

One entirely innocent child every four minutes? D.D. And are these innocent kids reaping something they've sown?

Well, hard to see that in this lifetime! But perhaps the one before or the one before that? Verily, verily I say unto you, to reach unto the kingdom of heaven, ye must be born again!

This is the only thing that makes perfect sense out of the deaths of millions of seemingly innocent kids and babies!

Just as a stone thrown into a pond, the ripples go on until they reach the shore! Then by implication, any act completed in the physical element must see any reward or punishment completed here also! If not in his life then the next?

And so, the sins (mistakes) of the fathers, shall be visited on the children! as we reincarnate, time after time, life after life? And inherit the very world and world order we helped create! Sow as you sow,o also shall you reap!

Or put another way but means the same, Karma! Absolute, so as you sow, so also shall you reap! Divine justice! Time to do it very different and take responsibility for what you do or allow, given you are coming back to wear all of it!

God may well have created this pandora, but we let it out of its box through our many, greed is good, paradigms.

And the responsibility of all who lead, be it in our parliaments or from the control freak's pulpit!
Alan B.

Dear Ozpen,

You said of Daffy Duck's whimsical offering;

“Instead of giving us your philosophical rave, why don't you address the content of my article?”

Mate that could not be in any way described as a rave. Yours was most certainly a religious rave/rant. Projection at its finest.

Your article was a mish mash of illogical meanderings, pruning kind of relevant snippets from a book which deserves better, without any grounding in fact. You have spruiked your take on life, the universe and everything. What harm is it for someone else to do the same?

Now I put ot you that God does evil. Do you have a response?

Some form of religion has existed in every society
that we know of. Religious beliefs and practices
are so ancient that they can be traced into
prehistory, perhaps as far back hundred of thousands
years ago. Even the primitive Neanderthal people of
that time, it seems, has some concept of a
supernatural realm that lay beyond everyday reality.

Among the fossilized remains of these cave dwellers,
anthropologists have found evidence of funeral
ceremonies in the form of flowers and artifacts that
were buried with the dead, presumably to accompany them on
the journey to an afterlife.

Although religion is a universal social institution, it
takes a multitude of forms. Believers may worship gods,
ancestors, or totems, they may practice solitary
meditation, frenzied rituals, or solemn prayer.

The are a great variety of religious behavior. What most
of us are familiar with is that there exists one supreme
being or God. That God created the universe and all life
and takes a continuing interest in the creation. That there
is a life hereafter and that our moral behaviour in this
life influences our fate in the next.

Obviously, religion cannot be defined in terms of
Western tradition alone.

Few citizens of modern societies would
utterly deny the possibility of some higher power in the
universe, some supernatural transcendental realm that
lies beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience and in
this fundamental sense religion is probably here to stay.

However, asking the question as to why the good God
allows COVID-19?

Is like asking- why is there evil in the world?

What we do in this world is our choice. We have the power
to choose our actions, how we behave, what kind of world
we want to live in, and the kind of societies and
civilisations we create or destroy.

You contrarians need to have a look at Spencer Gear's qualifications and experience. With the exception of runner, you are just a bunch of Christophobes with nothing worth saying on the subject.

Why does the good God allow COVID-19?
Then ask why He allowed you to come out of the womb to begin with, into this cold, painful, hostile world!

Take responsibility, fellows: you knew what this world is like, you knew how it operates, you knew that life here would not be a picnic, yet you chose to come here anyway - so please play by the rules, own it up, why seek the pleasures but shun the pains? The nature of this world is that they come hand-in-hand!

If you truly did not like this world, then you didn't have to come, so please don't blame it on God who allowed you to experience what you wanted and needed. Even now, if you truly do not like it here then you may simply leave, just drop your body, forget about it, stop identifying with it and allow it to fall wherever and however it will - but would you?