Well spotted.The Mad Hatter wrote:God was mentioned nowhere in the article, a family just lost their daughter, and you're soap boxing the fucking thing?
There ain't no fucking god. Get over it.
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Them mention of God was meant to be a "There's to much evil in the world for there to be a god" comment, methinks 
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Re: There ain't no fucking god. Get over it.
I personally never met a theist who seemed to care about this question. I have heard stories of people's "faith being tested" by bad things happening to them, but as far as I know they're just stories. Basically I don't get why it would make any difference to a theist. Why would anyone think that having a God protects them from the tragedies of life? Rather odd concept.FBM wrote:Where the fuck does "automatically" come from? How often do you see me posting in this sub-forum or about anything related to the existence of a deity?The Mad Hatter wrote:What the fuck does it matter?
The only thing worse than someone automatically turning to religion to console is some automatically turning to anti-theism when a tragedy strikes.
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It is both odd and also precisely what most of them think. Their only defense against the infidel's pointing to needless and random suffering and tragedy is to say something along the lines of 'The Lord works in mysterious ways', an intellectually dishonest evasion. It's old news. This story by chance intersected with something else I was thinking about at the time.hiyymer wrote:I personally never met a theist who seemed to care about this question. I have heard stories of people's "faith being tested" by bad things happening to them, but as far as I know they're just stories. Basically I don't get why it would make any difference to a theist. Why would anyone think that having a God protects them from the tragedies of life? Rather odd concept.
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Thing is, religions have bibles in motel rooms, billboards, churches, people mentioning it all over the place, people naming their children after religious terms...The Mad Hatter wrote:What the fuck does it matter?
The only thing worse than someone automatically turning to religion to console is some automatically turning to anti-theism when a tragedy strikes.
So, we can't help but have religion on the brain whether we believe in that crap or not. Sometimes we think about other things and juxtapose those with religion.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: There ain't no fucking god. Get over it.
I was just thinking about that - lately there's been titles of a movie, and a book, with three words, one of them being a religious one...Robert_S wrote:Thing is, religions have bibles in motel rooms, billboards, churches, people mentioning it all over the place, people naming their children after religious terms...The Mad Hatter wrote:What the fuck does it matter?
The only thing worse than someone automatically turning to religion to console is some automatically turning to anti-theism when a tragedy strikes.
So, we can't help but have religion on the brain whether we believe in that crap or not. Sometimes we think about other things and juxtapose those with religion.
Eat, Pray, Love, Women, Food and God, blah, blah, BLECCH!
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I heard an interview on public radio with the woman who wrote that book. She had some interesting insights in there among the religion and woo. A good mind fucked over by selfish memes.maiforpeace wrote: Eat, Pray, Love, Women, Food and God,...
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Eat Prey, Love Women, Food and...Cod?Robert_S wrote:I heard an interview on public radio with the woman who wrote that book. She had some interesting insights in there among the religion and woo. A good mind fucked over by selfish memes.maiforpeace wrote: Eat, Pray, Love, Women, Food and God,...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Re: There ain't no fucking god. Get over it.
That explains the thread.FBM wrote: This story by chance intersected with something else I was thinking about at the time.
(until I read this, I was thinking along the same lines as the mad hatter)Evil ... That's anthropomorphising and moralising what are completely naturally occuring events (ice falling and killing a person who happend to be in the way) and which have no moral value whatsoever. The human tendency to do this is a big part of why we've started out to be so superstitious and futilely reactionary, I think.AnInconvenientScotsman wrote:Them mention of God was meant to be a "There's to much evil in the world for there to be a god" comment, methinks
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