RE: Muslim thinks that suffering happens to muslims because Allah is testing their faith
November 23, 2015 at 9:54 pm
(November 23, 2015 at 9:47 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(November 23, 2015 at 9:24 pm)robvalue Wrote: It makes me very sad that people could think that about their God and still worship it. I find worship a ludicrous concept at the best of times, but this is seriously messed up beyond belief. God can basically do any horrific thing to them and still be called "good". That's total and utter surrender of your humanity and dignity.The more God loves you, the more severely he beats the crap out of you.
Ultimately, it's just a way for people to try and account for the problem of evil, I think. It's just a particularly terrible way, to an outside observer.
Just ask Job. Now for the more modern audience, where is their double reward? And don't say heaven, because Job got his in his lifetime. Not that he ever deserved that trauma in the first place, and not that I expect he trusted his god very much afterwards.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html