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How Great Thou Aren't
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RE: How Great Thou Aren't
December 8, 2011 at 2:25 am
(December 7, 2011 at 10:12 am)Cinjin Wrote:


Firstly, your questions.
How so? because by definition a false dilemma is a type of logical fallacy that involves a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are additional options. There are a myriad of alternative answers you intentionally leave out of your seemingly exhaustive dichotomy. Perhaps he chooses whom to help or when, perhaps it's a lesson, perhaps he enjoys siffering, perhaps he doesn't care... there are truly tons of other alternatives.

Does your god help you with the simple goings-on of your daily life? sometimes

Did god provide you with that ham sandwich you ate at lunch time? no

Secondly, I feel this is an afront to my pesonal morality, not because I'm offended by the images, but because it's just as bad at anti-abortion protestors carrying around aborted fetuses to throw in people's face. IMO, you should never use another's unintentional suffering as a point to win an argument. Not that I'm unmoved by the human suffering in these photos. Truly it grieves me that I haven't done enough personally to help human suffering.

What you're doing here though is not that though. You're attempting to get to the point of God allows everything or God does everything. That is not scriptual exegesis. God clearly doesn't allow or approve of all things. God clearly, while the originating cause, doesn't do everything although he might have the power to. You're creating a false dichotomy intending to shed a negative light on Christianity while Jesus, our example, served the poor and starving food, healed the sick and ministered to the suffering. I think at best it serves to exacerbate how far away from God, humanity (Christianity included) has come from God's standard.
"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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How Great Thou Aren't

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How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 6, 2011 at 12:40 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Erinome - December 6, 2011 at 1:31 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 6, 2011 at 3:10 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 6, 2011 at 6:43 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 6, 2011 at 9:50 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Heather - December 6, 2011 at 10:58 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 6, 2011 at 7:49 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 6, 2011 at 9:53 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 6, 2011 at 10:08 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 6, 2011 at 12:57 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Heather - December 6, 2011 at 3:02 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Mister Agenda - December 6, 2011 at 6:35 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 7, 2011 at 1:36 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 7, 2011 at 10:12 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 8, 2011 at 2:25 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 8, 2011 at 4:02 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Heather - December 7, 2011 at 10:47 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 8, 2011 at 3:24 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 8, 2011 at 3:56 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Heather - December 8, 2011 at 9:32 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 8, 2011 at 8:39 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 8, 2011 at 4:20 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 9, 2011 at 5:17 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 9, 2011 at 12:20 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by gralbrit79 - December 9, 2011 at 6:31 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 9, 2011 at 6:41 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 9, 2011 at 10:13 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 9, 2011 at 2:01 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 9, 2011 at 2:57 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 9, 2011 at 7:16 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 9, 2011 at 10:22 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 9, 2011 at 10:45 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Kayenneh - December 9, 2011 at 11:02 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 9, 2011 at 11:10 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by gralbrit79 - December 10, 2011 at 12:52 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 10, 2011 at 1:41 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 14, 2011 at 6:56 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 14, 2011 at 1:42 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 10, 2011 at 6:11 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 10, 2011 at 1:03 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by gralbrit79 - December 10, 2011 at 11:45 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 14, 2011 at 8:25 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by tackattack - December 14, 2011 at 9:41 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 14, 2011 at 12:29 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Blackbox - December 14, 2011 at 11:29 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 14, 2011 at 12:47 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Godschild - December 15, 2011 at 5:48 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 15, 2011 at 6:05 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Godschild - December 15, 2011 at 9:35 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 16, 2011 at 4:29 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 15, 2011 at 7:31 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 15, 2011 at 9:23 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 15, 2011 at 5:54 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by frankiej - December 15, 2011 at 5:57 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 16, 2011 at 4:33 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 16, 2011 at 6:11 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by ElDinero - December 16, 2011 at 9:53 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 16, 2011 at 11:35 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Godschild - December 16, 2011 at 6:01 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 16, 2011 at 6:24 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Jackalope - December 16, 2011 at 10:14 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Godschild - December 17, 2011 at 1:05 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Jackalope - December 17, 2011 at 2:16 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Darwinning - December 17, 2011 at 12:15 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Cinjin - December 18, 2011 at 5:09 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Minimalist - December 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by houseofcantor - December 16, 2011 at 2:24 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by The Grand Nudger - December 16, 2011 at 10:24 pm
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Jackalope - December 17, 2011 at 12:58 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Godschild - December 17, 2011 at 7:23 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by Shell B - December 17, 2011 at 2:12 am
RE: How Great Thou Aren't - by The Grand Nudger - December 17, 2011 at 11:39 am

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