Is it strange that I want there to be a God ?

[Creed of Heresy]

And what exactly IS "godly sorrow?" Kindly define it for us, please.

[Tonus]

the godly sorrow
is expressed when the haiku
is rendered poorly

[junkyardboy]

And what exactly IS "godly sorrow?" Kindly define it for us, please.

the fact you need to ask shows you don't have it
one thief on the cross had it, the other didn't
seems you have a 50/50 chance of getting it right

[Something completely different]

the fact you need to ask shows you don't have it
one thief on the cross had it, the other didn't
seems you have a 50/50 chance of getting it right

And what should Creed or anyone on this forum feel sorry for?

[Silver]

the fact you need to ask shows you don't have it

I am unsure what godly sorrow is either, but I certainly have humanly sorrow for people like you.

[Creed of Heresy]

And what exactly IS "godly sorrow?" Kindly define it for us, please.

the fact you need to ask shows you don't have it
one thief on the cross had it, the other didn't
seems you have a 50/50 chance of getting it right

Ahh, I see! It's something where if you don't know it you won't have it and therefore since you don't know it you'll never have it since you won't be able to know it! It all makes perfect sense thank you so much for clarifying that for me I truly appreciate no seriously what the fuck is it. ._.

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Unless the idea is, like...godly sorrow is to be really really apologetic or something when you do wrong in which case...yeah, sure, I apologize to people if I hurt them. but the key here is that I apologize to the PERSON, not to god, as your religion says I should. Jesus was pretty clear that if you wronged someone else, you didn't apologize to THEM, you apologized to HIM, because that delusional old sweater-monkey was such a narcissistic self-absorbed piece of crap that he had to make sure everyone knew of his victim complex...and really, when you think of it like that, it becomes clear where the Christian persecution complex comes from; it comes from their stupid, silly martyr-figure and his own endless amounts of solipsistic victimization. Hell the entire bible when talking about Jeebus Cripes [or however you spell his name] is basically one long baaaaawfest about what a victim Jeebus was. It's a big-ass attempt at a global guiltrip and fuck that attention-whoring shit.

[Ryantology]

Godly sorrow leads to repentance
does the murder/rapist have Godly sorrow?
thats between the sinner and God.

I love being sorry to figments of people's imaginations but you make no compelling case as to why I should be sorry to yours.

[CleanShavenJesus]

Christianity is the most important historical force, unquestionably, the most significant influence on the modern world. Does anyone want to dispute that?

A couple of things:

1. Creed posted before you examples of how Christianity isnt as powerful as you think. But you ignored it and posted this instead.

2. You're the one making the claim, provide proof that Christianity actually is the most important historical force, and we can go from there based on the evidence you provided to back up your claim.

3. The Greeks

[Norfolk And Chance]

What kind of God would allow the boxing day tsunami to happen? To allow HIV to become a pandemic? To let little kids be born in dire poverty?

A non existent one.

I think most atheists have gone through a "I wish there was a/wouldn't it be cool if there was a god" phase at some point in their life - I mean the hippy happy jebus type god, not that fucking clown in the bible who kills for fuck all... but wanting or wishing something to be true will never ever make it true. Only being true, makes something true.

There is nothing that would lead a reasonable, unbrainwashed individual into believing it to be true.

[The Grand Nudger]

If a xenocidal fucking psychopath god existed it would be terrible, but terribly interesting at the same time.