(May 31, 2013 at 4:12 am)Consilius Wrote: People praise God for the people that are in their lives. Of course, this doesn't take any credit from other people, just attributes it through them and ultimately to something greater.
You can't give people credit for everything e.g. who you are, your capabilities, surviving a flood, living in a First World country
And what of those afflicted with crippling mental and physical problems, who've lost loved ones to natural disasters, who live in squalor in Third World hellholes, or any others whose lives are full of suffering through no fault of their own? What do they have to praise God for? As I said before, I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of a god, though I admit I could be wrong. However, I am certain that if there is a god, he is not the loving, compassionate entity that Christians and so many others claim him to be.
And to again address the specific fallacy of Christianity: either God is perfect, therefore meaning that our flaws are intentional, or God is not perfect and thus our flaws were a mistake on his part; whichever is the case, for him to condemn us for those flaws makes him a monster unworthy of worship. And as a Catholic, I'm assuming you believe in the immaculate conception? Well, if God was able to make Mary exempt from original sin, why couldn't he have done that for all of us instead of arbitrarily declaring that we're all born guilty of the wrongdoings of our ancestors? Oh, yeah, because then it'd be pointless for us to gather in a special building once a week and beg his forgiveness for being as he made us...and while we're there, put our money in the plate and allow the organization that owns the building to control how we live our lives.