RE: the thread title's assumption that there is a God.
1. I have just heard that a study shows that, in general, people who believe in God live four years longer than atheists.
a. I am guessing that believers enjoy a strength that non-believers lack.
b. I can easily understand why some Roman Catholics are fortified by the Church's rituals.
c. And, of course, "There are no atheists in a foxhole."
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NEVERTHELESS, I feel that one Leo Newman was right when he wrote:
"It is beyond my comprehension how people -- rational, thinking human beings -- can believe in an all-powerful benevolent Supreme Being. Obviously that being is either incapable or unwilling to prevent the tragedies and brutalities that mankind has suffered since the beginning of time."