Scottie wrote:About 10 years ago, a scout was lost in the Uinta mountains in Utah. As far as I know, they have still never found his body.
A couple years later, another scout was lost in the same mountains. They found this scout a couple of days later.
The news was just FULL of pious reporters saying how God still answers prayers!!
I can't help but wonder how the parents of the first scout felt. God sure didn't answer the prayers for THAT scout, now did He?
Can the author of all this order of the universe and this world, order that unfolds as science, also be the author of randomness, of that which has no pattern?
Mr. Nightlion, "God needs a valid stooge nation and people to play off to wind up the scene."
Scottie wrote:About 10 years ago, a scout was lost in the Uinta mountains in Utah. As far as I know, they have still never found his body.
A couple years later, another scout was lost in the same mountains. They found this scout a couple of days later.
The news was just FULL of pious reporters saying how God still answers prayers!!
I can't help but wonder how the parents of the first scout felt. God sure didn't answer the prayers for THAT scout, now did He?
The parents of the first Scout are probably happy knowing it was God's will to kill their son.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
A god who would intervene to save some people and sit by and let others be tortured or killed or maimed is kinda cruel.
That is why I *hate* stories like this.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Scottie wrote:About 10 years ago, a scout was lost in the Uinta mountains in Utah. As far as I know, they have still never found his body.
A couple years later, another scout was lost in the same mountains. They found this scout a couple of days later.
The news was just FULL of pious reporters saying how God still answers prayers!!
I can't help but wonder how the parents of the first scout felt. God sure didn't answer the prayers for THAT scout, now did He?
The parents of the first Scout are probably happy knowing it was God's will to kill their son.
H.
God probably needed him to be a missionary to the people in spirit prison.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
If a higher power wants me to worship it, it should be worthy of worship.
The Christian God is not worthy of my worship.
Dit Oh
If it is cruel it might as well be satan and we should all fight against it.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Well, this is a thread about Mormonism. We are discussing these stories within that framework.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Socrates wrote:Must a higher power be worshiped? Must a higher power want to be worshiped?
Yes. Yes.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir