text: i am having a hard time with my faith in god. i just don't understand how we can love and trust him, when.... he lets so many bad things happen. i used to be very spititual and religious. i am saved, i went to church, i prayed, i read my bible, i had a strong relationship with him. and things were the same in my life. their wasn't a difference.  i mean i am svaed so i am going to heaven..so why go to church and pray to him? people are perfectly capable of making one another miserable without help from a g-d.  what makes you think  g-d's duty is to solve man made problems?  if g-d (at least in the western judeo-christian concept) is capable of asking abraham to sacrifice his son, what makes you think something wholly other is going to conform to your era-geographic specific values?  personally i avoid the entire issue by believing in fertilizer.