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God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 4:01 pm
A lot of Christian apologists, when talking about the anthropic principle, like to point out how "perfectly in-tune" everything is for humanity's existence. For example; how the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field act as a perfect shield from the Sun's deadly radiation. Everything from how the human body is designed to fight off deadly infections, to how Jupiter's immense gravity attracts asteroids that would otherwise hit the Earth.
Reminds me of someone who would send a swarm of killer bees after you, but only after he's given you a can of bug repellent.
Clearly, he loves his creation so much, that he's willing to design us with safety features that protect us from all the bad things that are trying to kill us.... Which he also designed...?
Sounds like infinite love to me.
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 4:06 pm
At last, I get to use this in proper discussion:
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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.'
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Must have been an LGBT parade in California.
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.'
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Quote:God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
Erm...if God loves us enough to protect us from disasters (which he doesn't - ask any dead villager buried under a mud slide), what is the point of God sending the disasters in the first place?
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 4:24 pm
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"And thank you for sending Lisa to protect us from the bug you sent."
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 6:58 pm
If God tipped his hand that way, belief would count for nothing, people would know.
First actual God that turns up and doesn't play the invisible spook believe in me game and actually openly walks among us doing flipping miracles (making the meat at Taco John look normal, resurrecting Juice Newtons music career, stuff like that), be it Zeus, Yahweh, FSM, or that obscure pig god Captain Bligh believed in, I don't care, I'm turning in my time here and signing up.
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 8:18 pm
(May 30, 2014 at 4:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:to how Jupiter's immense gravity attracts asteroids that would otherwise hit the Earth.
Fucker couldn't even do that right.
That was just a warning shot.
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RE: God's love protects us from the disasters he sends.
May 30, 2014 at 8:56 pm
he expanded the heavens because he needed more room. why do you guys always diss Yahweh? don't you know he's omnipotent? that's very potent for those of you left unaware.
I hate the bible. I love that do as thy whilst stuff.
