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Where are all the gods?

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Tangle
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Message 101 of 122 (873449)
03-15-2020 5:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 100 by Phat
03-15-2020 4:56 PM

Phat writes:
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The whole premise of Jesus Christ is that there *is* a "skydaddy" Who sent His Son to help out here.
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Sure I know the story. It's a story intended to explain away our rubbish situation here and make amends by promising a fantasy life thereafter.
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And why on earth should God shield us from every challenge that the universe throws our way?
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Why would this god throw these 'challenges our way?
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We would become fat, undeveloped blobs of simplicity were he to do that.
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Given that this current 'challenge' is about to kill about 1% of the global population, getting fat seems a slightly smaller problem.
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Yet you cling to this notion that any god worth considering must have evidence to support their existance.
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I do not. I just require evidence in order to believe.
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It may just not be that way.
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It isn't that way.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona
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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Tangle
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03-16-2020 4:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 105 by Phat
03-16-2020 3:26 PM

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Everyone seems to behoove the idea of god allowing harmful things to exist, but I've never seen a problem with it. Do we really expect Him to catch us every time we stumble and fall as a baby? To magically put protective pillows around our tiny knees and faces? How then would we develop the character traits to survive? Obviously we do need to get tougher.
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I don't believe you. You must have thought more about it than this - we've been pushing this stuff in your face for years.
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I've never figured out how the unbelievers will call Him a bloody bastard or a tyrant as if they have some better idea of how such a Deity *should* behave! But that's an argument we will never have any conclusions on.
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It's certainly an argument that you will fail to understand because, I suspect, you just don't like it. To the rest of us it's blindingly bloody obvious.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona
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"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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