(April 13, 2019 at 11:39 pm)rado84 Wrote: Every now and then I keep hearing or reading news of "crimes" against the local churches. Yesterday I read about a bunch of kids who stole the donations box of a church in my country. Naturally the media called that "a major crime" but considering what criminals run and serve the church, I don't think stealing from a thief is a theft. Anyway, the article said there were 4 security cameras in that church and also (like many other churches around here) it had something in my language is called a "security roulette". IDK what it is called in English.
This brings me to the $1 million question - if your god keeps you safe, why:
• do you need cameras or that security thing from the above image?
• do you lock your car in the street or park it in a garage that has a lock?
• do you lock the door of your home?
That shows a serious lack of faith in your god. Therefore, all the so called "christians" are actually atheists.
• do you need cameras or that security thing from the above image? Humans require evidence before prosecution, God just smites people.
• do you lock your car in the street or park it in a garage that has a lock? Yes for both
• do you lock the door of your home? Yes
Criminals do serve and run some churches... and some daycares, political organizations, governments, social groups, law firms, etc. Stealing is stealing, even if it's for a good reason/ just cause. As to the pont in lack of faith. I do have a lack of faith in God sometimes, usually because I believe I know how to better do something. Not because God hasn't shown time and again that He is powerful enough to turn it to good, but because the levels of atrocities and evils people propagate on each other is nearly unfathomable and truely scary.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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