Dick, it's true that conflict is part of the process, but there is no gain without pain.

In the old days, it was a bad idea to eat oysters or clams in the summer because of paralitic shellfish poisoning. Apparently it was easier to just say "NO" than to try to explain red tide to the masses.
How do we know that Revelation wasn't written under the influence of some sort of natural poison from eating nasty diatoms?
If God created all things, why would he/she/it hate any of them? Does it make any sense that God would give us intelligence, then condemn us for using it?

Thanks number 6. God told me to say that.