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RE: God’s Wrath
March 15, 2020 at 10:36 am
(March 15, 2020 at 9:30 am)brewer Wrote: (March 14, 2020 at 11:40 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So I’m very tired of every time we have Zika, West Nile, Swine flu, and now CODVID-19 (Corona) it’s always someone did SOMETHING to piss off god. Really? Can we not...?
Not to worry dear, we'll all pray with you.
Now get on your knees!!
‘When I get down on my knees, it isn’t to pray.’ - Madonna
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 15, 2020 at 10:43 am
(March 15, 2020 at 7:29 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (March 15, 2020 at 7:16 am)Chad32 Wrote: It was always weird to me that people would say these things are god's wrath, as if he can't come up with an idea to punish humanity, that doesn't also involve hurting his own people. Then again, christians often believe we're born in sin, and no one is really good, or innocent. The epitome of dehumanization. "No human has ever thought up a god with better manners than his own." I would add "and many of those god were horrible, like their human imaginers."
Yes. I have noticed that at best, gods are only ever slightly more progressive than the general Human populous. at worst, they're just as bad as any evil dictator.
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 15, 2020 at 11:13 am
God are a tool to control the population. They have to be dicks to have any street creds.
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 22, 2020 at 10:10 am
(March 15, 2020 at 7:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 15, 2020 at 7:29 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "No human has ever thought up a god with better manners than his own." I would add "and many of those god were horrible, like their human imaginers."
And to continue the quote, ‘Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.’
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Robert A. Henlein was right!
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 22, 2020 at 1:56 pm
I voted for Jubal Harshaw for US President in 1972. Given the other choices...
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 22, 2020 at 2:24 pm
(March 22, 2020 at 1:56 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I voted for Jubal Harshaw for US President in 1972. Given the other choices...
If nominated, he would not have run. If elected, he would not have served.
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 22, 2020 at 3:25 pm
(March 14, 2020 at 11:40 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So I’m very tired of every time we have Zika, West Nile, Swine flu, and now CODVID-19 (Corona) it’s always someone did SOMETHING to piss off god. Really? Can we not...?
This interpretation is contradicted in Luke. When bad luck happens it isn't a sign that unlucky people are worse.
Quote:Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” [Lk 13:2-5]
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 22, 2020 at 3:44 pm
(March 22, 2020 at 3:25 pm)Belacqua Wrote: (March 14, 2020 at 11:40 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So I’m very tired of every time we have Zika, West Nile, Swine flu, and now CODVID-19 (Corona) it’s always someone did SOMETHING to piss off god. Really? Can we not...?
This interpretation is contradicted in Luke. When bad luck happens it isn't a sign that unlucky people are worse.
Quote:Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” [Lk 13:2-5]
I see. Bad things don’t happen to the unlucky, but to people who think for themselves.
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 23, 2020 at 4:46 am
(March 22, 2020 at 3:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 22, 2020 at 3:25 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This interpretation is contradicted in Luke. When bad luck happens it isn't a sign that unlucky people are worse.
I see. Bad things don’t happen to the unlucky, but to people who think for themselves.
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That's right, religion hates people to actually think, it's bad for their business.
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RE: God’s Wrath
March 26, 2020 at 11:47 am
Yeap
Quote:Trump cabinet Bible study leader blames coronavirus on gay people and environmentalists
The minister who hosts a weekly bible study session for President Trump’s cabinet has an opinion about the origins of the coronavirus. According to Ralph Drollinger, it’s just another form of God’s wrath in response to an increasingly progressive nation.
Drollinger also railed against the “religion of environmentalism” and people who express a “proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality,” who he claims have infiltrated “high positions in our government, our educational system, our media and our entertainment industry” and “are largely responsible for God’s consequential wrath on our nation.”
“Drollinger’s study guides have provided Biblical justification for the Trump administration’s undocumented immigrant child separation policies and arguments in favor of lower taxes on the wealthy.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-c...upset-god/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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