~powers that be.. ^^., what be you? Options

[DivA]

~thought of the moment...do you believe in a higher power? if so, then what would that be & why do you believe; & if not, then why not?

[Marn]

I feel a lot like scu on this one. I don't think any higher power, at least one like any religion I know of on earth portrays it, could create this world and let this happen to it. Catholics say that it's all part of free will, and because we have this, is why evil people kill others and harm people... but what about cancer? What about AIDS? Natural things, diseases, stuff that our fragile human lives are weak to, because there has to be something. If there is a God simliar to the one the Christians believe in, I'd like to know why he lets us live like this and not a paradise, similar to the one we have to do good deeds our entire life to get into, instead of allowing all this. Free will is great and all, but murder victims and children or anybody who dies of a terminal illness and is ripped from the world had no free will... they died because we're organisms with immune systems and sometimes they get infected and they fail, and some people are mean and some people hate and kill. Not because we were given the gift of anything, least of all free will...

Meeeeeeh~