(June 17, 2014 at 8:33 pm)zanOTK Wrote:(June 17, 2014 at 8:18 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Aye... but feeling good is not exactly guidance and those other things you said you pray for...
Although feeling good does help you to think better about any problem you may have and you are more likely to arrive at a positive outcome.
What bugs me is the attribution of that very internal chain of events to some external cause ... some external cause that doesn't seem to cause anything!
Theists believe that it does.
Haha, I'm reminded of something that is DEFINETLEY not religious: Futurama. Hilarious show. Ever seen it? In one episode, Bender (robot) meets God who is actually a giant computer/something else that smashed together (I can't remember what it was the computer crashed into...). Anyway, God/The Computer said that if you do things right, it won't look like you did anything at all. This was in response to Bender's own experience "playing god" to a bunch of tiny little aliens that basically colonized his body while he was floating through space. When he helped them, they became too dependent on him and wouldn't do anything themselves. When he didn't help them they destroyed themselves in a tiny (from Bender's perspective) nuclear war.
Of course, that doesn't prove anything. It's a damn cartoon. But it did make me think. It kind of makes sense, in a way. I mean, I question all the time why God doesn't intervene more. But, if he did, wouldn't we become too reliant on Him? According to my own religion's beliefs, we are here in this world to learn and to develop spiritual attributes. How exactly are we going to learn or develop anything if He steps in whenever we're in trouble? We're not. If that's the case, then we're just not going to know it whenever our lives have been interfered with. There probably won't be any immediate changes. But over time, things will happen. Maybe. Lol.
The simple fact of the matter is, according to my religious beliefs God expects people to get the hell out there and DO something. In fact, service to mankind is considered to be a form of worship in the Baha'i Faith.
Thus totally justifying the pastor who rapes his 12 year old every other night for four years, then blames her heroin addiction on a lack of faith in god, and throws her out of the house when she turns 18 after giving her a few more for good measure.
Because, God couldn't whisper "HEY, STOP FUCKING YOUR DAUGHTER" on one of the nights off, otherwise the pastor would teach "dependency"
