RE: Why Thanking God is Hurtful
December 24, 2014 at 3:59 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2014 at 4:09 am by Losty.)
(December 23, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Godschild Wrote:(December 23, 2014 at 3:19 pm)Sionnach Wrote:
There fixed that for you, all bold mine. You are seriously deluded by your own despite of Christianity.
GC
Seriously? People like doctors and teachers are only human. They can't save everyone. They're not all knowing nor are they all powerful.
Your god is supposedly both. I was at a Christmas party Saturday in the biggest house I've ever seen (and I've seen some pretty big houses), there were so many people and even more food. It was ridiculous. We stood in a circle while one man thanked god for blessing his family with so much food and so many nice things. Not because he was so glad to be blessed but because he was blessed with the ability to give so much to others. Well, it seemed really nice and that he helps people less fortunate than him is a nice gesture. I couldn't stop thinking that perhaps his god could have blessed him a little less and maybe blessed people whose children are slowly starving to death a little more. If everyone has your god to thank for everything they have, then it's just that. Everyone has your god to thank for everything they have. Including children they cannot feed, cancer, aids, abusive spouses, nightmares from being a POW, a cheap tiny casket for their little one for every horrifying reason imaginable, etc. etc.
What is it? Do we thank god or don't we? It's unfair to thank god for lives saved and tummies fed if you do not also thank him for lives lost and starving children.
So when you say your Christmas prayers this year, be sure to throw in a thank you for the cancer that killed my friend Kelly at 25 years old this year and the famine that starved so many children to death. Don't forget to thank him for fatal car accidents and for allowing so many people to lose their jobs. If you're going to give him thanks for all he has given then give him thanks for all of it not just the good stuff.
(December 23, 2014 at 11:39 pm)Godschild Wrote:(December 23, 2014 at 8:57 pm)Tonus Wrote: Wait... being thankful for doctors and teachers is a mark of delusion?
The reason I change the original quote was, to show that placing the doctor and teacher in for god would be just as damaging as the if the writer was correct which he wasn't. The whole thing doesn't make sense, for example the writer assumes or at least wants the reader to assume that all people here everyone praying for others and that's ridiculous. Christians understand that God's not going to heal everyone and unbelievers don't care about God, so as I see it the writers only feeling sorry for himself, he needs to get over it.
GC
GC....you do realize that good faithful Christians are victims to tragedies even while they pray and heathen atheists live happy comfortable lives all the time...right?
Prayer doesn't change your odds. You change your own odds, those who help you change your odds, those who don't help you change your odds, where you live...so many things are factors in what will happen and what won't. Prayer isn't one of them. I've never seen it make a difference. Ever.
