(March 13, 2011 at 12:12 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:You need to get out into the real world of christians, you might find that they are looking at the world in cold, hard facts. As for the walking dead they would be all nonbelievers like yourself.(March 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm)OnlyNatural Wrote: It's all so absurd. I just can't understand people. Religious belief can be so selfish... God loves you and saves you from disaster, but if he kills thousands along the way (most of which are probably not Christian, so would likely go to hell anyway), well that's just part of his grand, noble plan. Idiotic humans... we need to stop being so goddamn naive.
Its intellectual suicide. Suicide is saying "this life isnt worth living". A leap of faith is saying the same thing as "this life isnt worth living, so therefore I will ignore reality and live in a fantasy world." It doesnt matter wether a god exists or not..having faith in a god is the exact same thing as suicide...it is intellectual suicide. These people are the walking dead...zombies...living in a world of faith and refusing cold, hard reality.
OnlyNatural, have you ever be in a church setting, it does not sound like it from your response? If you were rescued from a life threatening event would you thank the person who saved you even though others may have died, I think you would and I know I would. So why is thanking God any different? Thanking God for ones life in an event such as this is only natural (no pun intended) for christians, however they did not stop there I'm sure, they have and are praying for the families and friends who have lost loved ones and are praying for those who need to be rescued. I would say that the christian churches in Japan are already giving aide to those in need and helping in any way possible, I know that the churches from my area sent volunteers to the victims of Katrina and they where some of the first to arrive to that disaster. Please don't think of christians as selfish just because we are grateful that God spared lives, I would say that a number of christians died in the disaster also, for all you know God may have spared the lives of many nonbelievers and I personally believe He did. Many christians in America and around the world are giving of their time to pray for the victims of this disaster and the amount of money and goods donated to the relief effort will be awesome and all this is a good thing and guess what no strings will be attached. So you see God is working to help the people of Japan, christian and nonchristian alike, He is doing this through the hearts of His people.
Min save your words and time we know what you think....God doesn't exist.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
