(April 24, 2013 at 8:09 am)festive1 Wrote: I'm annoyed by the statements others have pointed out as well. I'll add this one: Telling or declaring about a musician, artist, etc., "You have a god given talent!" It's meant as a complement, but simply because someone has a natural aptitude, undeveloped this means relatively little. Saying a person has a god given talent, denies the hours of hard work and practice the individual put in to become as good as they are at whatever it is they do. That just rubs me the wrong way.
Yes. I had that happen to me just yesterday. I was talking to someone about my past troubles etc and she blurted out that "your ability to withstand so much is a god-gifted ability".
So, let me get this straight ... god created the suffering, and then god gave me the ability to withstand my suffering ... it's completely illogical to me. And yet, I can see a theist argue that that is perfectly logical ...
