God and Distaster

[reverendjeremiah]

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.

There is no such thing as "the real world of christians". There is merely just "the real world". Christianity holds no trademarks on reality, the world, philosophy, religion, goodness, kindness, hatred, hell or heaven. Cold hard facts are that the cookie they give you during communion actually turns into the flesh of Jesus? The wine actually turns into blood? Those are cold hard facts? Plain and simple, those who choose to walk in faith rather than of this world are admiting that this world is absurd, and have therefore commited intellectual suicide by taking their leap of faith to escape the absurdity rather than embrace it for what it is..to embrace the truth no matter how frightening. THAT is cold hard facts. Look up at the night sky, and instead of going in awe over the shiney, sparkly diamond thingeys in that night sky, take a notice of how huge, cold and dark that minute fraction of the universe is that you can see. The vast majority of this cosmos is cold, dark, nothingness. THAT is cold, hard facts.

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.

Typical christian dodge. Compare an all powerful and perfect deity with frail, fallable humans. If a human did as such and was unable to save the others, I would thank him. If a human was able to save the others but refused, I would think less of the person..i would be a bit freaked at him. But an all perfect, all powerful god who can snap his fingers and save everyone at once? Your standards of "perfect" are so very, very low. No wonder you are a theist. Your standards are damn near rock bottom.

God could have saved every single person with the snap of his finger. Why didnt he? Because he just wasnt powerful enough to save them, not perfect enough to save them, he only had enough power to save a handful and let 10,000 die? Because he wanted them all to die a horrible and violent drowning?..or he is merely a fictional character?

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.

I am well aware of what some of the Christians do when natural disasters like this happen. I know how strings are attached to the aid they give, I know how Christians will kidnap the little children over there like they did in Haiti and other places. I know they take the donation money and buy bibles with it and hand bibles instead of food out to the people. I know some churches actually do nice things with no strings attached as well. I also listen to those christians on yahoo talk about Katrina, and all the Ni**ers being brute beasts. I listen to your fellow christians. I hear them right now using Japan to make Katrina look bad for racist reasons. Dont even dare say they arent true christians either.

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.

"giving of your time to pray" is a huge waste of time. Its like me saying; "Im playing my xbox 360 for the victims of Japan right now!" and then expect you to pat me on the back and say good things about me for doing it. some will attach many strings. Some will just attach just a few, some will attach none. Either way, not a single thing you said has any proof whatsoever that god even exists, much less is doing work helping out the people of Japan.
Min save your words and time we know what you think....God doesn't exist.
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