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God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
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God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 4:54 am
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse:

Quote:The bible was meant to be just as it is. God put some contradictions, evil doings, and stories deliberately in the bible in order to make the believers find out themselves as to what is right and what is wrong. God put up the challenge to the real believers to identify these "hidden and deliberate wrongs" in the bible so that they can distinguish between the good and the bad. Only the true believers will have this ability to fully decode the bible.

This from my local church preacher, published in one of the dailies in my locality. I have heard some really idiotic statements, but this goes below the standard of absurd theist claims.
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God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 5:13 am
That's about 4 tebows I'd say
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 5:25 am
So only those with the holy spirit can read *cough* cherrypick *cough* the bible correctly.
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:20 am
only 4?? You are being very generous tonight Zen aren't you??
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:35 am
Quote:The bible was meant to be just as it is. God put some contradictions, evil doings, and stories deliberately in the bible in order to make the believers find out themselves as to what is right and what is wrong. God put up the challenge to the real believers to identify these "hidden and deliberate wrongs" in the bible so that they can distinguish between the good and the bad. Only the true believers will have this ability to fully decode the bible.

I thought god was all knowing? Undecided
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Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:37 am
Apparently this is not the case Ace....

When are you seeing TSQ??
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:38 am
(February 1, 2012 at 7:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Apparently this is not the case Ace....

When are you seeing TSQ??

March-April. Not sure of the exact date yet. Big Grin
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:40 am
(February 1, 2012 at 7:38 am)Ace Otana Wrote:
(February 1, 2012 at 7:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Apparently this is not the case Ace....

When are you seeing TSQ??

March-April. Not sure of the exact date yet. Big Grin

Way kewl!! Excellent..please give her an extra cuddles from me and Zen won't you??

I WILL check up on this ya know Tongue
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 7:56 am
(February 1, 2012 at 7:40 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Way kewl!! Excellent..please give her an extra cuddles from me and Zen won't you??

I WILL check up on this ya know Tongue

Lots of hugs and pics. Tongue
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Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

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You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: God - Playing Mind Games with Believers
February 1, 2012 at 10:50 am
(February 1, 2012 at 4:54 am)Forsaken Wrote: Just when I thought it couldn't get worse:

Quote:The bible was meant to be just as it is. God put some contradictions, evil doings, and stories deliberately in the bible in order to make the believers find out themselves as to what is right and what is wrong. God put up the challenge to the real believers to identify these "hidden and deliberate wrongs" in the bible so that they can distinguish between the good and the bad. Only the true believers will have this ability to fully decode the bible.

This from my local church preacher, published in one of the dailies in my locality. I have heard some really idiotic statements, but this goes below the standard of absurd theist claims.

Pastors especially need to sell this bull shit cause their very existence depends on it. Ironically, they are the very false prophets that their bible warns of. Undecided

I try so hard to keep an open mind about the intelligence of christians; trying desperately to remember that there are a handful that have brains in their heads .... but they continually make it so god damn hard to keep that up. Every time I make a little headway, I hear something like this and then it's right back to square one.

Square one: "jesus-tapdancing-christ! Christians are a bunch of fucking idiots."
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