text: is the flu-virus satan's idea? all bad is from satan, is what i always hear..that includes diseases.  if that's true, then why do christians get flu-shot? these shots contain a small amount of the flu-virus, to help the body to produce anti-bodies.  therefor: isn't the flu coming from god, because it helps you to stay healthy.   therefor: who created diseases? god or satan? satan doesn't have the power to create according to your religion. the bible says repeatedly that only god has the power to create life. it is impossible for any christian to attribute a living organism to the doing of satan >period<  diseases exist because ours is a random world and bacteria and viruses exist because of whatever reason. perhaps they were created by an entity, perhaps they evolved. i believe that life may have evolved, and because i believe that i understand that many creatures exist whose sole purpose is to infect host bodies to survive, like many viruses. do you honestly think a perfect and loving god created these viruses knowing what pain they cause and the fact that they most of them serve no purpose except to harm their hosts? yeah......no one can quite convince me that he did because it would mean god isn't that kind.   do you believe god made disease? it is interesting to me that the bible says jesus went around curing people of their diseases quite often. it seems to me that if jesus really didn't like to see people suffer, as the bible leads us to believe, that he and his daddy just wouldn't have made disease causing agents when they supposedly created the world to start with, but there are so many flaws with the xtian way of thinking i just won't get into that. the question is this, if things happen for a reason, such as many xtians believe that you only get sick because god allows/wants it, why did jesus go around curing those suffering? was he not undoing their illness that they got in the first place because he and daddy allowed it in the first place? deep, but go figure......it doesn't add up.   viruses are very interesting. they don't have all of the characteristics of living organisms. if you studied biology you might know that. they adopt to most things very well as do bateria and they do evolve ( it is a proven fact) to more deadly strains. that is why this avian flu is such a deadly strain. it hasn't always been around and it is very powerful. do you think a god tweaked the virus so it would become even more deadly and powerful just to aggravate the human population on earth? the only other option is to accept that it just randomly evolved into what it is now, which is how scientists and rational people understand it.  if there is a god i can't explain some of the awful things he does if he does indeed control everything. i prescribe to agnosticism, which means i am not so sure there is a god, so i don't have to make up excuses for the unfair and insidious way the world works and make biblegod look good at the same time like you poor xtians do.  keeping in with the christian viewpoint i am sure you hold, god made all living things, and that would have to include the virus and bacteria, therefore all illnesses caused by those organisms can be attributed to him.  god is such a nice dude if he is real.