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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 2:55 am
(April 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm)Cinjin Wrote: It is very sad ... and pathetic. Mostly because we already know all the ridiculous things they will say.
#1 god works in mysterious ways.
#2 god has a plan.
#3 We can't understand that plan because we're just humans.
#4 We will rebuild for the glory of god
#5 (right after they get the insurance check ... ) praise god, we have an even better church.
I have to add one thing to this:
#6 If an non-christian community is hit: "Praise the lord, he'll rid the worlds of heathens! Good riddance!"
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 8:14 am
(April 25, 2012 at 7:42 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: It sucks that theists will never know they were wrong.
Which brings up my biggest issue with not believing in the afterlife. I will not get to gloat if I'm right.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 8:41 am
(April 26, 2012 at 8:14 am)Faith No More Wrote: (April 25, 2012 at 7:42 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: It sucks that theists will never know they were wrong.
Which brings up my biggest issue with not believing in the afterlife. I will not get to gloat if I'm right.
Biggest downer. Would be nice if for just a few minutes after death they see that they were wrong. Just a few minutes and then darkness comes and takes them back to oblivion. Just so we can have that 'told you so' moment.
To think all the theists in the world that have died and never knew they were wrong. Just completely unaware that they ever existed at all.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 9:37 am
Oh how I wish that were the case. While I would not want this for many people, for some of the more obnoxious pulpit pounders I would love to be there at that moment when they realise they're going to cease to exist. That "oh shit" moment would be priceless.
Does this make me a bad person?
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: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 9:42 am
I'd say it makes you "a person". The "bad" bit is superfluous.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 10:30 am
(April 26, 2012 at 9:37 am)Stimbo Wrote: Does this make me a bad person?
Nah, personally I consider it justice. All those fucking years of them harping on about death, can't wait for the end of the world shit and some afterlife only to learn they were wrong the whole time. It'll be priceless. Especially those who kept harping on about us going to hell. To see their face when they realise that they were wrong, it would be most satisfying. 
"I told you!" ![[Image: beee.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=rationalia.com%2Fz%2Fbeee.gif)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 5:22 pm
(April 17, 2011 at 10:14 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: http://hosted2.ap.org/COGRA/d30f3f32e9d8...1a62fe19e1
Bah, my browser blocks that site for a potential XSS attack; can't read. Oh well.
(April 17, 2011 at 10:14 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: This tornado literally touched down blocks away from me, but me and my family were not hurt. I cant say that for the others.
The rational explanation is that tornadoes tend to do that a lot, but I wouldn't expect your average Christian to know that.
(April 17, 2011 at 10:14 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Quite sad really, and to top it off, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people begging me for my prayers to them..do they not realize their god just destroyed one of their churches? What will it take before they see the reality of the situation...sad...so very sad, and it is compounded by sophomoric superstitious blah blah.
Wait, I don't understand, are people knocking on your door asking for prayer? My, that's a bit preachy.
(April 17, 2011 at 10:14 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I will be donating money, not worthless prayers.
Don't you get it? Asking for prayer is their underhanded way of asking for money. Don't be fooled! 
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Jesus avoids the atheist family and destroys his own church
April 26, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Quote:#2 god has a plan.
Bush had a plan and he was an asshole, too.
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