Why Does God Allow Suffering?

[SnakeMauler]

Pray for me, I believe I’ve been struggling in my faith lately. I havent been to church in well over a couple of months now. I have an arrogant, prejudice, intollorant atheist friend who takes shots at my religion every time I sit with him. (I only sit with him to sit with my other friend.) Before I became religious, we had NO problems with each other. But every day he says something like, “Remember how God helped out when millions of JEWS died in the holocaust?” But I’m starting to feel he has a point. I mean, why does God allow such suffering? Why does he allow for retarded kids? Why does he allow for Africa to starve to death? I’m certainly not questioning my faith enough to ever leave it, but this does bother me a little bit.

Punch your friend in the face for being stupid, and for viewing “retarded kids” as inferior human beings. Then, take his money for wasting your time and stop being friends with him.

Your friend is doing no less than what the Devil did to Jesus in the desert.

More than likely your friend is being how he is because he actually feels God working in his own life. More than likely he masturbates and looks at porn and is now feeling bad about it because something (God) is making him feel guilty about it, so he’s just trying to put God down and whatnot.