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Originally posted by checkbaiterYou have missed the point. Completely.
Don't blame God. He is not the cause of disasters, killing, etc.
Where is God When Tragedy Strikes?
http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=534
I don't blame god. God doesn't exist.
However when a person says that god can and does save people from disasters
and in fact chooses who will die in a disaster and that those deaths serve gods
purpose and will then that person is saying that those people who die in a disaster
deserved to die.
It is the absence of compassion and morality of that person, and not the god
they are imagining, that incurs my ire.
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Originally posted by googlefudge
You have missed the point. Completely.
I don't blame god. God doesn't exist.
However when a person says that god can and does save people from disasters
and in fact chooses who will die in a disaster and that those deaths serve gods
purpose and will then that person is saying that those people who die in a disaster
deserved to die.
It is t ...[text shortened]... ompassion and morality of that person, and not the god
they are imagining, that incurs my ire.
However when a person says that god can and does save people from disasters
and in fact chooses who will die in a disaster and that those deaths serve gods
purpose and will then that person is saying that those people who die in a disaster
deserved to die.
He does not choose, there is much more you do not understand. He is "limited" in what He can do, due to free will. You are far from understanding the truth about His character in your assessment.
If you were really interested you would have read the article.
Originally posted by wolfgang59So you have been thanking things you don't believe in? Perhaps this explains your arguing things you don't believe here and elsewhere on RHP? Removing your head from your posterior is the first step for you in dealing with this.
each day is a blessing was posted in another thread by UzumakiAi
and he added in parentheses "in a secular sense". I agree with him.
Each day is a blessing but we have no-one to thank.
Recently we (my family) have taken to thanking the FSM, tooth fairy or
other random "deity" at meal times to remind ourselves how lucky we are
and not to ...[text shortened]... our comfortable lives for granted.
Any other atheists got their own way of dealing with this?
Originally posted by joe beyserIf you had half a brain you would understand what I mean. The thread is
So you have been thanking things you don't believe in? Perhaps this explains your arguing things you don't believe here and elsewhere on RHP? Removing your head from your posterior is the first step for you in dealing with this.
about being thankful for what one has. The problem, as an atheist, is I
have nobody to thank.
I hope that is clearer to you.
Now go pray for better manners and more brain cells.
23 Nov 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59You have FSM, tooth fairy, and random deities to thank. You said it earlier. If you are an atheist then the thought of thanking someone would not have entered the neurological network of your diseased mind. Come on now are you confessing to be a little agnostic? Don't get all defensive just answer up.
If you had half a brain you would understand what I mean. The thread is
about being thankful for what one has. The problem, as an atheist, is I
have nobody to thank.
I hope that is clearer to you.
Now go pray for better manners and more brain cells.
23 Nov 13
Originally posted by joe beyserOh dear it really was too difficult for you wasn't it?
You have FSM, tooth fairy, and random deities to thank. You said it earlier. If you are an atheist then the thought of thanking someone would not have entered the neurological network of your diseased mind. Come on now are you confessing to be a little agnostic? Don't get all defensive just answer up.
I AM NOT THANKING IMAGINERY BEINGS
I am just being THANKFUL.
Thankful for my family, my food, my house, my health and after
reading your post extremely thankful for my intellect.
And just out of curiosity when did you last read a book?
23 Nov 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59Why don't you just thank yourself for being so smart all on your own?
Oh dear it really was too difficult for you wasn't it?
I AM NOT THANKING IMAGINERY BEINGS
I am just being THANKFUL.
Thankful for my family, my food, my house, my health and after
reading your post extremely thankful for my intellect.
And just out of curiosity when did you last read a book?
The Instructor
23 Nov 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59Why bother at all?
each day is a blessing was posted in another thread by UzumakiAi
and he added in parentheses "in a secular sense". I agree with him.
Each day is a blessing but we have no-one to thank.
Recently we (my family) have taken to thanking the FSM, tooth fairy or
other random "deity" at meal times to remind ourselves how lucky we are
and not to ...[text shortened]... our comfortable lives for granted.
Any other atheists got their own way of dealing with this?
23 Nov 13
Originally posted by divegeesterTo remind myself that the petty inconveniences of my life are nothing
Why bother at all?
compared to all the good fortune I do have.
To remind my son that most children of the world do not take 3 meals
a day for granted.
To remember those less fortunate than me.
... and it really is not so much of a bother ...
...... why would you think it was?
There are other problems with atheism, one simply needs to ask the question, of what benefit is it? If I adopt atheism, how will I and others be benefited and the answer is not entirely clear.
For the Christian by way of example can point towards a set of guiding principles, an exemplar, the Christ, a morality, a Christian one which acts like a beacon for his or her life, what has the atheist? naught but an inner moral compass which may or may not be functioning and which has as its guiding principle naught but the self, inexperienced and prone to aberration. When asked for a moral stance he must enter into the murky world of moral relativism, where mere opinion is the currency or seek to establish his stance on the ever shifting sands of what is morally fashionable. Each one to their own is the cry!
One is entitled to ask, what sense of purpose does it offer the adherent? what hope? what comfort? how will it help the initiate to transcend themselves? and dear friends I tell you truly the answer is not entirely clear just what benefit atheism bestows upon its standard bearer and why one should adopt it.