Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumAnybody else gritting their teeth
at the confirmation bias and sheer lunacy coming from the "faithful" over the tornado tragedies? I just heart a pastor whose church was totally demolished say, in all seriousness, "God is in control."
Skittles
(153,169 posts)predictable
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)doesn't want you operating a church?
Warpy
(111,270 posts)Response to Brainstormy (Original post)
Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)A survivor claimed she survived because god was watching out for her. I guess he was too busy to watch out for those who lost their lives.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)That line gets right up my left nostril....
Bev54
(10,053 posts)According to Alex Jones it is Biden who is in control by geo-engineering the tornados. How do they worship a god that destroys so many lives? Religion is a sickness.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)But they never seem to notice while condemning everyone else
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)I have seen numerous interviews with Kentucky citizens standing in fron of a pile of rubble that was their house saying they are "blessed" and "God is good" because he saved them. That's some control they have over people when you can make them think that losing everything is a blessing.
It's like George Carlin used to say, the greatest salesmen in the world, people that sell millions of dollars worth of goods, people who close international deals worth billions of dollars, are in awe of the Clergy.
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)I am often amazed at the philosophical gymnastics believers put themselves to find good where there really isn't any.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)who first said it: the God of most religions acts exactly like a spoiled, psychotic child.
Many years ago there was an horrific airplane crash in Michigan. Everyone dead, until they found an infant who had been thrown from the plane still strapped in the child seat and practically unharmed.
The verdict: How could anyone argue that the childs survival didnt prove that there was a god?
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)God IS in control... IF you believe in an all-powerful God.
We had a discussion on this.
God knows all - past, present, and the future.
God has the power to change whatever he wants.
Whatever evil/bad happens has been approved by God.
IF you believe in an all-powerful God.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218317588
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)how come their organization constantly needs money from me?
God is all powerful, except he's just not good with money, he needs your help there?
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)CBR - Cash Based Religion.
Judas was an early, modern-day, conservative disciple.
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.
Franklin Graham, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.
Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.
EmmaLee E
(170 posts)S/He is not a kind, nor loving, god.
If God is kind and loving,
S/He is not powerful.
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)spike jones
(1,680 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)Descartes proved with logic that God exists. The church rejected that because it negated the need for faith.
spike jones
(1,680 posts)RussBLib
(9,019 posts)your neighbor is killed, you survived, and you give thanks to god for saving you
as someone earlier in this thread said, THAT is some kind of control right there.
smh