Sadistic God?

Last night Art Bell had Maurice Cotterell as a guest on Coast to Coast AM.

His theories are many but one in particular is that through suffering we purify our hearts, and by purifying our hearts we allow the impurities of our soul to "drain out" through our hearts, and then we can return to God with a pure soul where he uses that pure energy to grow.

I believe in my heart this not to be true. I don't want to believe in a sadistic God for it would leave little purpose to life.

Sometimes the circumstances of my own life and those that I care about though make me wonder. I can't feel as rock solid about that as I would like.

Every night before I sleep I say the lords prayer. I keep trying to remember that prayers are not always answered instantly.

On the plus side, Maurice Cotterel also believes that the sun causes schizophrenia and I guess that would explain why Seattle, the city with the least sunshine of any major city in the continental United States, is such a sane place. Thank God the Aurora bridge is here, because if it were some place like, oh, Phoenix, the body count would doubtlessly be tremendous.