Child dies in hot car while parent is in choir practice
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Child dies in hot car while parent is in choir practice
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This enough religion bashing for everyone? I'm sure there's a lot more where this came from.
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.'
Or the classic: the kid was growing up to be another Jeffery Dahmer or Adolf Hitler or something.
Of course, then one wonders why God didn't off Jeff . . . .   (October 8, 2014 at 10:47 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(October 8, 2014 at 10:45 am)Stimbo Wrote: How about the most patronising and banal excuse of them all: "Well clearly, it was that child's time to die." An excuse which carries an implied additional point: "God needs another angel, and he has somehow lost the ability to create them ex nihilo." Isn't it fun, when bland christian nothings end up containing deeper, unaddressed implications for their religion as a whole? 
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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Lord be praised.
Where do they grow these people?
Unreal. Such a sad story.  I echo those calling out the hypocrisy here.  (October 8, 2014 at 11:29 am)Esquilax Wrote:(October 8, 2014 at 10:47 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: "God needed another angel" Y'know, when two hydrogen nuclei fuse to make a helium nucleus, a positron and a neutrino and photon are emitted. There is no new mass/energy since the Big Bang. Maybe angels are a necessary byproduct of some heavenly process; God can no longer make them ex nihilo. 
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.  (October 8, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Chas Wrote: Maybe angels are a necessary byproduct of some heavenly process; God can no longer make them ex nihilo.If you listen carefully, you can almost hear god muttering "fucking fine tuning is bullshit!!!" under his breath.
"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 
I appreciate the OP. I find it completely relevant to this forum, and am happy it was posted (although I'm not happy it happened).
In response to 'What's next Sunday's church service going to be like?', I'm pretty sure it will be just the right amount of bereavement. Christians are good at bereavement. Opportunities to make long lasting impacts, flourish in the wake of emotional stress. I predict that the mother will find herself in a retelling of The Scarlet Letter, eventually-- only people don't openly say they're discriminating against her, they just do it. Its an inevitable conclusion--and a reality for many people-- that when bad things happen, the recipient is deemed responsible or even deserving of such events, in many religions. Which is the inevitable conclusion of when you throw in absolutes such as an antithesis to good and god-- which is bad, and the devil. A highly limited frame of thinking, I'm my opinion. Only the Sith deal in absolutes. Also, Shaman, love you dude but Beccs is right.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite. Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment. Quote:Some people deserve hell. I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong. ![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
 (October 8, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Chas Wrote:(October 8, 2014 at 11:29 am)Esquilax Wrote: An excuse which carries an implied additional point: "God needs another angel, and he has somehow lost the ability to create them ex nihilo." If you think about it, God apparently lost the ability to make shit ex nihilo after creating Adam, since even then he had to use a rib to create Eve. I guess he got plumb tuckered out. Poor baby~
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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