Years ago when I lived in Dallas, there was a rapist whose technique was to hit women joggers with his car, after which he raped them as they died. I had always thought that was the lowest crime I could imagine, this one looks like a tie.... While most people consider me "liberal" there is one issue on which I am not, which is the death penalty. Like the one in my backyard, the gene pool needs a good cleaning, by professionals, on a regular basis.

And don't forget...Jesus did nothing wrong, and it was God's plan to allow humanity to torment and kill His Son as well!

We lack the intelligence and depth to understand the motives of an infinitely omnipotent Being...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Assuming God even exists in the first place, how do we know if he even has a plan or gives a rat's ass? If he's anything like me, he would create a process that sets the rules & auto-manages everything for him. In that case, even he wouldn't know exactly what his process will do for him.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

In my opinion, any universe in which people refer to Mercedes turbo diesel wagons as 300TDT's can't have been designed by an omnipotent omnibenevolent deity.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

every now and then the gene pool gets jacked...

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

You can account for that by allowing EVIL a place in the universe.
Whenever I see someone advertising to sell, or buy a 300TDT, I become amused, and then certain of my moral superiority to at least SOME of my fellow human beings.

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If by 'evil' you mean some set of conditions without which the universe would have been a better place, then I don't see how such a set of conditions are compatible with an all good all powerful deity.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Maybe this being needs to make himself/herself/itself seen and explain it to us. Assuming it is that omnipotent, that should not be such a task, should it?

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Very simple answer. IF he exists and is not omnipotent, WGAS what he wants? IF he exists and IS omnipotent, IOW, he can do everything he wants, why won't he come down and show himself and explain his plan. Even if we don't understand it, at least we know he exists?

OTOH, maybe as in the Tower Of Babel story, he is just trying to screw with us and keep us down.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

I believe that's where the "faith" part comes in...

...If everything God created according to plan was fundamentally easy for humans to understand, He wouldn't be very awesome, would he?

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Blind faith, IMO.

And as I said, if he were really omnipotent, it would be easy for him to explain it so we can understand it.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

So you are basically bad in your opinion?

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'59 180 Dad's original
'59 180 Dad's 2nd one
'67 250SE Dad's last one
'59 220 SE My first one
'62 220SE Coupe second one
'89 190E 2.6 5spd third one
'06 E350 4matic (sold)
'10 E350 4matic

Yeah, shoot them all, or hang.

This whole crime is odd, their is a part of the story were not getting yet.

On another note this is kind of scary:
"The sheriff called the surveillance tapes "chilling." He noted the vehicles were at the home less than 10 minutes, and the five people were in the house less than four minutes.

"It leads me to believe that this was a very well-planned and methodical operation," Morgan said."

I never envisioned having to defend myself against multiple fairly well organized intruders. Thats tough even with a good rifle and supply of ammunition. Maybe installing a very strong bedroom door to buy you time.

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

I did say that people are basically bad creatures. If I am part of that "people", I would assume that I am bad too. I don't make that kind of exception because it would cover me as well as others.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

The banality of evil.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K