http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/us/indiana-tornado-girl/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
When I read this, a picture titled "Theodicy Without Words" came to mind:
Family dies holding hands, praying
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Family dies holding hands, praying
“The parents and their three children -- all 2 or under, including one buckled in a car seat -- held hands on the hallway floor of their neighbor's mobile home, praying a fast-approaching storm would show them mercy. Mother Nature [sic, God] answered with a fierce tornado, which violently swept them up, separated them and deposited them about 100 yards away.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/us/indiana-tornado-girl/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
When I read this, a picture titled "Theodicy Without Words" came to mind:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/us/indiana-tornado-girl/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
When I read this, a picture titled "Theodicy Without Words" came to mind:
http://www.Theofrak.com - because traditional religion is so frakked up
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
God helps those who help themselves.
All this proves is that indeed God is not a magic genie in the sky.
All this proves is that indeed God is not a magic genie in the sky.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Tobin wrote:God helps those who help themselves.
All this proves is that indeed God is not a magic genie in the sky.
In other words, god doesn't help anyone.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
How would you have wanted God to answer this prayer? What would satisfy you?
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
You know I don't really think there is a God there to answer prayers but if I have to go I can think of no better way then to be together with my family like that. Sad story.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Hoops wrote:How would you have wanted God to answer this prayer? What would satisfy you?
I suspect that the family in question were politely requesting their deity to ensure that the incident in question ended without them being dead or seriously injured.
I'll go with that one.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Chap wrote:Hoops wrote:How would you have wanted God to answer this prayer? What would satisfy you?
I suspect that the family in question were politely requesting their deity to ensure that the incident in question ended without them being dead or seriously injured.
I'll go with that one.
Typical.
I asked HOW - not the end result.
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Hoops wrote:Typical.
I asked HOW - not the end result.
The usual means - magic.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Hoops wrote:How would you have wanted God to answer this prayer? What would satisfy you?
Hoops wrote:Chap wrote:I suspect that the family in question were politely requesting their deity to ensure that the incident in question ended without them being dead or seriously injured.
I'll go with that one.
Typical.
I asked HOW - not the end result.
Sorry I made you shout.
If that's what you mean by 'how', I'd say that the precise means and manner by which your deity delivered the result of safeguarding the family over the five minutes or so following their imploring his help would almost certainly have been irrelevant to them, and it is to me.
I mean, he's omnipotent, so let him just get on with it.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Family dies holding hands, praying
Buffalo wrote:Hoops wrote:Typical.
I asked HOW - not the end result.
The usual means - magic.
No, not the instrument. Try again.