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Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?

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Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
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#1
Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 13, 2015 at 11:39 pm
What is your opinion?
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 13, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Sure, do it all the time, GODDAMIT !!
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 13, 2015 at 11:59 pm (This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 12:02 am by JuliaL.)
It's a maybe.
A problem of equivocation between
1) the non-existent all powerful God, creator of the universe and
2) the evident cultural mindworm that welds communities into aggressive, acquisitive units of violent self-satisfied jerks (except for Jains).
No for 1) yes for 2).
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 12:51 am
Of course, just like any other fictional characters. Literature is filled with people that generate legit emotional responses. I fail to see why god should be the exception.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 12:59 am
I believe the OP may have been pointing to theists who prayed for a pony and got a fluffy kitten instead.
I can understand their anger. God just doesn't listen!

In his defence though, he doesn't discriminate ...he treats everybody equally...
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 1:12 am (This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 1:14 am by Vincent.)
Well I wouldn't say I'm angry at God. I don't like him as a character, but I don't have a grudge against him. Most of the time when I get angry, it's directed toward the foul actions committed by some of the people who believe in him (Westboro Church, I'm looking at you). 

But yes, I feel as though I can dislike him as written in the Bible and dislike what his character drives some individuals to do, while still saying he doesn't exist.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 1:16 am
I feel confident in saying that there's only one fictional character who is more universally hated than God.
His name is "Jar Jar Binks". Sorry God ...you are number 2!
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 1:22 am
(July 14, 2015 at 12:59 am)ignoramus Wrote: I believe the OP may have been pointing to theists who prayed for a pony and got a fluffy kitten instead.
I can understand their anger. God just doesn't listen!

In his defence though, he doesn't discriminate ...he treats everybody equally...


It has occasionally been alluded to that I may be angry at god, and thus not really a true Atheist.  I personally feel I can be angry at "god", and everything that has been done in the service of such a ridiculous idea, and at the same time not believe any god actually exists.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 1:22 am
I said no, but plenty are mad with cause at the people who duped them about god.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 14, 2015 at 3:50 am
No.

They're all mad at reality and just projecting Angry
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