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Pope Leo seems to be a nice bloke; yet he developed lung cancer. Other world leaders are killing people left & right, yet keep on living. How can this be explained, other than God doesn’t exist? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 6 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Do you mean the designer, omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent, creator, Jehovah, or the lord god that gave that gave us viruses, deadly bacteria, genetic diseases, parasites, , volcanos, earthquakes, blindness, cancers, floods, droughts, starvation, meteorites, death from lightning strikes, pestilence, holy wars, tidal waves, asbestos, infant mortality, trachoma, life threatening radioactive elements, solar flares, malaria, smallpox, despots, dictators, slavery, mass extinctions, ice ages, trachoma, hare lips, cleft palates, animal sacrifices, infant genital mutilation, mental illness depression, bilharzia and anxiety, autism, Parkinson's disease, Hansons disease, hernias, the appendix, compacted wisdom teeth, acne, dementia and complete morons?

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Not to take away from your beautiful comment, but wasn't there recently some research that the appendix might actually be beneficial? It had something to do with storing a copy of gut bacteria that can be re-seeded into the gut if needed. (I'll post a link if I come across the study again.)

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    The beginning of the biblical worldview is that everything was created in harmonious order, but then everything was fractured by us and broken bits now cause almost all of what you mentioned. God did give us the appendix though, and we think we've figured out why a few years back, it seems to hold a backup of the intestinal bacteria that can restart it if it gets wiped out.

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