(August 16, 2016 at 8:03 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(August 16, 2016 at 7:39 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: What solace would you offer a grieving father whose son was killed by a drunk driver? What promise of justice for the criminal the law could not prosecute? We can explore what atheism has to offer. What Ra and the ancient Egyptian text can offer. There's always Christ.
Is it the offering that's important...because delivery seems to count for something. At least, in this atheists book. There's always people offering -something- in christ's name..sure.......I hear you can get a genuine prayer mat for a reasonable price.
I wouldn't make too much of all that offering lest people notice the base affrontary of christian carrion seeking, if I were a christian.
^^ This, in spades.
Not being funny, but anyone who even tried to insult me in that way after Sam died would be eating teeth for the rest of their - very short and painful - life.
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.'
