It's a ridiculous argument. When something seemingly miraculous happens, it was an answer to prayer. When something bad happens, despite prayer, it's all part of God's plan, or God doesn't want to intervene with free will. What a crummy plan that involves thousands of kids starving every day, many children being kidnapped, raped, and murdered, and atrocities like the holocaust.
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Power of prayer flunks an unusual test
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 (April 5, 2012 at 4:24 am)Christian Wrote: Nick, as I told you, it was only through God's will that the situation was not worse. Hundreds could have died, but God saved them. jesustapdancingchrist! that is annoying. "Hey an asteroid from outer space hit the western hemisphere and killed 6 billion people. Wasn't God merciful ... it could've been worse." sweetfuckingjesus ... I cannot begin to describe the amount of disdain I hold for your kind. Your statement sir, is absolute stupidity. ![[Image: Evolution.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk619%2Fjcincain%2FPublic%2FEvolution.png) (April 4, 2012 at 8:25 pm)renew Wrote:(April 4, 2012 at 8:23 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: It's always possible that god doesn't like to be tested. or they weren't true christians or they were self-serving prayers (you know, the kind where people ask to stay alive) or they are part of god's greater mysterious plan or god was resting and simply didn't know about it. ![[Image: sad-emoticon-msn.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk619%2Fjcincain%2FEmoticons%2520Insults%2520and%2520Kudos%2Fsad-emoticon-msn.gif)
 (April 5, 2012 at 4:24 am)Christian Wrote: Nick, as I told you, it was only through God's will that the situation was not worse. Hundreds could have died, but God saved them. Interesting claim, can you back it up? Also couldn't god do better than that? Like prevent any lives from being lost. Stop natural disasters? Or is he not all powerful? Which would explain it. Theists make me laugh. 
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity. Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist. You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.  RE: Power of prayer flunks an unusual test
April 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm
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(April 6, 2012 at 2:32 am)Forsaken Wrote: We have a neurotic god that only accepts the credit for any perceived success but refuses to accept any of the blame for any disasters. Let's ask Him about that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZDcS-rMf4?rel=0 Incidentally, I have the same ringtone as the Deity on my 'phone.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (March 30, 2012 at 10:32 am)Darwinian Wrote: What a surprise Prayer works, just god didn't want to answer these particular prayers, because an enhanced recovery for those prayed for, was not his will at this time...  Or maybe prayer is fucking bullshit. Tough one.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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