So what was jesus hiding from behind the couch? Could have intervened just before the shots were fired and everything would have been alright.
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That Jesus is a pretty mean bastard. Sitting next to a little girl and telling her "everything will be alright" while her father murders her mother and kills himself. "It's all right, little girl; the only scars will be psychological."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  RE: annoying Facebook post
October 21, 2013 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2013 at 9:00 am by Cyberman.)
Yes, everything will be alright, except for the slightly inconvenient fact that precisely nothing about the scenario is alright. I'd be rather more impressed if this messed-up messiah had stepped out of hiding and taken the bullets that supposedly ended two people's lives and destroyed a third before delivering his platitude and getting back up onto his stick. In fact, if that version of the story actually happened and was verified by everyone concerned, I would be so impressed that I might even convert on the spot; because at last we would have real-world confirmation of the kind of miraculous intervention that only ever seems to happen in the stories that, worryingly, impress the credulous and easily led.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
I still don't get what the moral of this fucking story is supposed to be. I mean, I thought it was great when I was still a believer but more than 2 seconds reflection make it painfully obvious that the moral has to be that god is with you while he lets bad shit happen to you and those around you. Don't mind god, he's just busy loving the shit out of you.
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This kind of reminds me of the alternate take on the 'Footprints' plaque. You've all seen it...a line of footprints in the sand, and Jesus saying, 'In the rough places, I picked you up and carried you' blah blah blah.
Alternately, the supplicant says, 'Lord, I notice that in the easy places of my journey, there were two sets of footprints, so I know you were at my side. But in the rough place, there was only one set of footprints. Why?' And God replies, 'Gee, I don't know - maybe that's when I was off helping one of the seven billion OTHER people in the world, you selfish prick.' Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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