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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 6:07 pm
(October 21, 2014 at 4:23 pm)DaveTheRave Wrote: Just wanted to say God loves everyone for the craic.
Loves me so much, that he will punish me for eternity for a finite crime.
Your and god's idea of love is, shall we say, somewhat twisted.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 6:25 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 6:07 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: (October 21, 2014 at 4:23 pm)DaveTheRave Wrote: Just wanted to say God loves everyone for the craic.
Loves me so much, that he will punish me for eternity for a finite crime.
Your and god's idea of love is, shall we say, somewhat twisted.
That's what I'm saying. Love, justice, and mercy have different meanings when applied to religion.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 6:26 pm
If God loves me - truly, sincerely loves me - why didn't he arrange things so that bacon is GOOD for my heart?
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 6:37 pm
God deserves to be loved.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 6:41 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 6:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: God deserves to be loved.
Sorry, dude, but after reading the various books about God's character, the only thing he deserves is to be charged with crimes against humanity.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:03 pm
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You misspelled the word ridiculed.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:03 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 6:41 pm)Beccs Wrote: (October 22, 2014 at 6:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: God deserves to be loved.
Sorry, dude, but after reading the various books about God's character, the only thing he deserves is to be charged with crimes against humanity.
For giving me family that love me, the relationship of parents, family, and friends, I see a loving force that deserves to be loved. He has provided us with support we need to endure this troubling world, and it's but a fleeting moment until we make it to the other side.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:05 pm
As a deist I'm not sure why you'd care to thank your god, because deistic gods don't really care about you.
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RE: God loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:15 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 6:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: God deserves to be loved.
Why?
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 loves you
October 22, 2014 at 7:21 pm
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(October 22, 2014 at 7:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: For giving me family that love me, the relationship of parents, family, and friends, I see a loving force that deserves to be loved. He has provided us with support we need to endure this troubling world, and it's but a fleeting moment until we make it to the other side.
You do know that 25,000 people die of starvation every day, right? Most of them children.
Where exactly is this loving force that you claim exists?
What you are describing is an evil, hateful force, that gives you a loving family, and causes 10,000 times you to starve to death every day.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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