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God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2018 at 4:37 pm by GrandizerII.)
We read/hear all this talk from theists about how God clearly exists and how he is this and that and did this and that, and when someone objects to his existence and/or attacks him, theists jump quickly to his defense.
Yet, in all this arguing back and forth, not once does God utter a word. He just stands there in the corner watching us having an argument about him, with nothing to say to support his buddies and prove us wrong. No voice, no physical manifestations, no declaration of divine presence.
It's almost as if ...
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<cue dramatic music, signifying shock and horror>
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 4:45 pm
(February 1, 2018 at 4:36 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Yet, in all this arguing back and forth, not once does God utter a word. He just stands there in the corner watching us having an argument about him, with nothing to say to support his buddies and prove us wrong. No voice, no physical manifestations, no declaration of divine presence.
Grandizer, did you ever stop to think that God might be too busy curing disease in Africa creating sinkholes in countries that legalize gay marriage to be bothered with your pointless debates?
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 4:48 pm
He doesn't have to, he's god after all.
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 4:49 pm
Yeah I think this every time I think of: all the children that have been raped by pastors and priests, all of the religious wars where the god they were fighting over never even offered an opinion while thousands of people slaughtered each other in his name, the Holocaust (some anti-Semites claim that god was punishing the Jews for not accepting Jesus), the way my ancestors embraced slavery because the Bible and preachers said it was god's will, the refusal to give women in labor anesthesia because labor pain was god's punishment for original sin, (ok, I could keep going but you get my drift).
Humans have done such evil in the name of god, and justify it with a book of silly myths.
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 5:45 pm
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Maybe "god" has been talking..the entire time. It's just that he sounds suspiciously like your common asshole neighbor? 
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 6:21 pm
Innit amazing how much the invisible resembles the non-existent?
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 6:44 pm
(February 1, 2018 at 4:45 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: (February 1, 2018 at 4:36 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Yet, in all this arguing back and forth, not once does God utter a word. He just stands there in the corner watching us having an argument about him, with nothing to say to support his buddies and prove us wrong. No voice, no physical manifestations, no declaration of divine presence.
Grandizer, did you ever stop to think that God might be too busy curing disease in Africa creating sinkholes in countries that legalize gay marriage to be bothered with your pointless debates?
No, I didn't. I feel so ashamed now. Sorry God!
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 7:36 pm
Tens of thousands of Christian denominations, sects, schisms divisions and churches, it's as though God never shuts up in fomenting troubles in His own realm.
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 8:19 pm
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: God is so quiet
February 1, 2018 at 8:35 pm
(February 1, 2018 at 4:36 pm)Grandizer Wrote: We read/hear all this talk from theists about how God clearly exists and how he is this and that and did this and that, and when someone objects to his existence and/or attacks him, theists jump quickly to his defense.
Yet, in all this arguing back and forth, not once does God utter a word. He just stands there in the corner watching us having an argument about him, with nothing to say to support his buddies and prove us wrong. No voice, no physical manifestations, no declaration of divine presence.
It's almost as if ...
...
<cue dramatic music, signifying shock and horror>
People have been saying that for centuries.
Iasiah 41:23 (NOG) = "Tell us what’s going to happen so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something, good or evil, to intimidate us and make us afraid."
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