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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 1, 2015 at 4:21 pm
I'm not going to watch this nonsense, but I'd say the idea of being minuscule'd into believing is understandable. It's a vast scary fancy universe we live in. Shit'll get you looking for something out there.
I do recognize it's irrational. At the same time, humans seem to have been doing it as long as humans have been toddling around the planet. I'd say we have a evolutionary predisposition towards believing in some type of controlling entity. Rationality isn't exactly the human race's prime directive.
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 1, 2015 at 4:42 pm
There is lighting, therefore Thor. Bless his Holy name! Or Zeus. Or any other god that has something to do with lightning.
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 1, 2015 at 4:58 pm
It's funny how he calls the lightning storm a natural event, and the only explanation in his mind for this natural event is somehow the supernatural allah. Clearly this man was not a man of science like he claims.
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 1, 2015 at 5:37 pm
I think I learned where lightning comes from in gradeschool or middleschool. A man of science he certainly isn't.
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 2, 2015 at 4:29 am
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Well, he's in prominent company. Martin Luther became a monk after experiencing a lightning storm. But at least Luther had something going for him. That he lived at the end of the Middle Ages when stupidity and ignorance were the only games in town.
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 2, 2015 at 4:49 am
Yeah, cool story, except - not really. Who knows why the opportunistic sleaze-ball in the video really converted, or if he converted at all, as opposed to making the whole sh*t up, as as attention-grab.
I've known people - often quite intelligent and educated people - who suddenly became religious. They all have stories and arguments, attempting to both rationalize and romanticize their conversion and their new outlook on life and reality. Maybe they believe those stories to be true, I don't know, but pretty much all of them happened to discover religion right after traumatic events in their lives - like loss of a close family member, substance addiction, life-threatening physical or mental illness and such. Go figure.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Lightning Storm Therefore God...
May 2, 2015 at 8:33 am
What about that evangelist preacher in Ohio who was sermonising about penance, in the middle of a thunderstorm, shouted out "That's right, God, we hear you!" and then lightning burned the church down?
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.'
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