(April 11, 2017 at 10:45 am)Drich Wrote:... what kind on deflection...?(April 11, 2017 at 5:13 am)Regina Wrote: "God works in mysterious ways" is the typical answer to shit they can't explain.
The priest actually said that at my Dad's funeral. It went down like a lead balloon in a family full of non-religious people who just pretend to be for little old Grandma.
yet... that 'typical answer' is being used not by a Christian but by an atheist.
Guess you couldn't wait to give a cop out resonse so you had to generate your own opportunity... Good job!
I have never in my 23 years on this planet heard an atheist say that un-ironically.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
