(June 26, 2013 at 1:00 am)max-greece Wrote:(June 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm)taylor93112 Wrote: "There are many questions we wont have answers to."
Or
"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan".
I'm sick of hearing these when talking to religious people. What is the best response to these statements?
There are many questions we don't have answers to - but it is extremely difficult to identify those that we will never have answers to. What must be avoided at all costs, however, is the idea that the answer to any question we don't have an answer to, is God.
This is "God of the cracks" and it has a very poor track record historically.
As for Good seeing the bigger plan - what plan? Why should there be a plan?
I like your terminology better than the original "God of the Gaps"
I picture god inside a plumbers butt crack trying to crawl out.
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
