"Should God Apologize??"

I encountered a young woman who asked this question not once...NOT twice, but a total of **10** times!!!
(**a little update, it was 11 the other day**)

She gave no other reason for this other than she wanted other opinions. By asking this question 10 times, you're going to get no different answers than the ones you already got, so it's best to move on (but I digress).

The real reason I'm making this post is to address the main question. Should God Apologize? This young woman goes on (at great length) to describe many things she feels God caused including war, rape, disease...generally anything negative and therefore "evil" in the world. My question is, why is this resting SOLELY on God? God didn't cause war! God didn't cause rape! God doesn't necessarily cause disease (depending on the disease)!

The ones who should be apologizing are the ones using God to justify going to war, and causing rape and other unspeakable acts to innocent people. Do people really think God is the reason all this crap goes on in the world????? How incredibly naive!

People cause wars, perhaps due to direct or indirect misinterpretation of sacred religious texts (bible, koran, etc), or perhaps due to money, greed, selfishness, etc. These are human traits. War is a human construct. God has nothing to do with war. People just use God as their excuse.

The same goes with other unspeakable acts against innocent people. People make their own choices. God doesn't make people do anything (just like the Devil doesn't make anyone do anything). If someone chooses to rape someone, that's THEM doing it, not God. People rape innocent people out of power and control, not sexual desire. Other acts including genocide, abuse, whatever are also personal decisions made by PEOPLE. Those people just choose to use God as their excuse to make it justifyable (and I can't believe there are people out there naive and stupid (yes stupid) enough to actually believe those excuses, including the young woman asking the original question).

As for disease, that's really more science, than it is God's problem. Sure, perhaps s/he created the micro-organisms causing the diseases, but situations cause them to grow and multiply to become dangerous. Living in despicable, dirty places cause such diseases and other issues to form such as Ebola, E. Coli, Staph, etc. Dirty, unsanitary conditions provide the best breeding grounds for devastating disease...these things can be avoided by putting aside petty differences and greed and cleaning up where you live. However, this all goes back to the war discussion above, because people are so greedy and aweful, conditions like these will continue...it has nothing to do with God.

God also didn't create diseases such as obesity and diabetes, these are caused either by natural processes (the way the body grows), OR an unhealthy lifestyle. These are not God's issue. God didn't make anyone over eat, or eat the wrong things. They did that on their own.

The bottom line is...we need to stop blaming God (or the Devil) for the problems of the world. That's the problem with the world to begin with. People are too quick to pass blame than take responsibility!