(April 19, 2010 at 10:31 am)tavarish Wrote:(April 19, 2010 at 9:58 am)Thor Wrote:(April 18, 2010 at 6:53 pm)TheMultiverseTheory Wrote: You can hope for something, but putting faith in it is like saying you have faith that it will not rain the next day, but the weather forecast says it will. And ultimately, it does rain, and you just say "Well, that's just how God made it."
This reminds me of a something I saw on a reality show. Some people were talking to a farmer and the farmer made a comment about "this beautiful day that God gave us!"
This statement passed without further comment. But if I had been there I would have immediately asked the farmer if he blames "God" when people die because of hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, floods, etc... I'm sure the farmer would have said, "of course not." Then I would have said that if you credit "God" when the weather is nice, you are saying that "God" is responsible for the weather. Well, if he's responsible for GOOD weather, he must also be responsible for the BAD weather. He's either responsible for all of it, or none of it. Therefore, if he's responsible for a "beautiful day", he's also responsible for weather disasters that kill thousands of people. So, if you want to tell me that "God" is responsible for good weather, you also have to acknowledge that he kills people with bad weather. But, if he's not responsible for hurricanes and such, then he's also NOT responsible when we have a beautiful day. And you shouldn't be crediting him when the weather is nice.
I wonder what kind of reaction I would have gotten...
God is only responsible for the good things, ya thilly gooth.
See that depends on what you 'define' as good or bad, I love hurricanes and death can be a relief at times, both statements are true. See what I don't like about 'atheist' is that they keep taking this 'Christian' form of what god is...like he is a man. Which the all time best-selling fairy tale book aka the bible doesn't even support that idea, ironically. Someone can look at what God created a thunderstorm and say I can sleep at night the sound of the thunderstorm is relaxing and the person next door can say 'the sound of the thunderstorm keeps me awake', they can both blame god, not good nor bad, just is. Trust me, if man didn't screw up and build a greedy earth-destroying mansion in the middle of nowhere that keep lots of animal habitat would he, suffer from a weather disaster. I would say don't blame the hurricane that beautiful your dumbass was in the way.
