You really dont think the world evens itself out, bunyip.
Look around you and really take note.
I suspect that the girls who were abused by those sex gangs would find zero comfort in you telling them the world evens itself out in the end. I'm sure they'd consider your words as poor justification for God ignoring their pleas for help - pleas which I'm sure at least some of them and their families made on more than one occasion.
The Jewish victims of the Nazis - some of whom are still alive today and are still so traumatized that they’re reduced to tears just by talking about it – try comforting them by telling them that the world evens itself out in the end.
Try explaining to them why their god, who is promoted by both Jews and Christians as as loving and compassionate and always ready willing and able to help those who believe in him, abandoned them to the cruelty of the Nazis despite all their prayers for his help.
Next time you see someone on TV with tears running down their face as they talk of how the Gestapo knocked on their door at 3am, took their father or mother away, and they never saw him/her again – ask yourself if they’d find any comfort in you telling them that the world even itself out in the end.
People are kidding themselves if they believe that some god (the Christian god or any of the other dozens of gods that have been worshipped by the human race) will come running to their aid out of pure compassion and love whenever they call on him/it for help.
If you believe that, then you might as well believe in fairies at the bottom of your garden as well.
Christianity needs to stop lying to people. I suspect that pretty much every other religion lies as well, although I don’t know for sure. But I do know about Christianity, I was brought up in a Christian family, I was a practicing Christian myself, and I saw first hand the blatant dishonesty, contradictions and hypocrisy of some (not all) of the teachings of Christianity.
Your questions were all answered that if we all lived by Jesus teachings, what a better world it would be.
I agree completely that it would be a far better world if everyone lived by the teaching of Jesus. But you’ll never get everyone to live by the teachings of anyone. People will make their own choices – some will choose to live as decent people, some will choose not to.
Those who choose not to live decent lives are often a thorn in the side of decent people. That’s why we have laws and police forces – to give us some protection against these indecent people.
One of the teachings of Christianity is that God will be our ally and comforter and protector if we believe in him, live decent godly lives, and bring our problems to him through prayer.
Anyone who doesn’t see the world through rose coloured glasses will know that God fails to deliver on that promise.