(September 20, 2011 at 8:28 pm)IATIA Wrote:(September 20, 2011 at 8:11 pm)Cinjin Wrote:(September 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm)IATIA Wrote: "Where was god on 9/11?"
Actually, according the the bible, he was flying along side all of those pilots, listening to them mutter prayers to allah while they flew into the buildings that god was also already in.
Apparently god REALLY doesn't give a shit.
So, prayer is bad. If god would not have been listening to those prayers, he might have noticed what was going on and done something about it.
Nah! Wishful thinking.
Perhaps I may quote myself again
All I can say is the people on this planet who abide in evil, destruction and chaos are very powerful and that in many spiritual concepts it is clearly stated that "God gives humanity free expression" meaning God will intervene only if God has to.
God let's bad things happen because life on planet earth is merely a learning experience of both the Good and Bad. In the tragedy of 9/11 much spiritual learning has taken place.
If God intervened all the time, no one would learn. The life experience is meant to entail both the positive and negative. Only through negative experiences do you learn the most. Thus, humanity was given quite the lesson on that day.
This can also be reflected in the same way that the human being is a half animal, half human being. The Darwinist has realized the half animal nature of the human being, while the spiritual have realized the "half human being" aspect of who we are as human beings.
Just as it was reiterated in Genesis "Man was created in God's image" , this does not mean that God is a human being or a man, but merely that the qualities of love, compassion and understanding are reflective of God.
Quote:Everyone has the right to be offended.No one has the right NOT to be offended.
That is quite the dangerous statement. In such a statement you will find justification for racism, discrimination and hate. I simply don't approve of negative actions and behavior and neither should any human being. It simply expresses a profound ignorance for your fellow human being. I am completely against this ridiculous "right to be offended". People have a right to disagree and that's about it.
Quote:When given,compassion is freely given but may never be demanded or expected as a right.
I agree that's certainly how some people think, however I feel the only way we can improve humanity is by making compassion a right.
