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Post by jdredd on Aug 13, 2015 23:24:06 GMT -5
I felt the need for a thread to kick around theology. We had a thread titled "Religion", but I want to reboot the subject. Plus, I thought title of the old thread lacked some zip. Anyway, I am assuming there is a God, otherwise why have a thread about theology at all since theology is the study of God. So why do I blame God? Well, he did create everything, didn't he? And thus he created all the good plus all the bad. I suspect that Christians and other religious types let God off the hook for the bad, but I'm not sure how they pull that off. From where I sit, the buck stops with Him. Am I wrong?
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Post by jdredd on Aug 18, 2015 19:33:17 GMT -5
One of the (many) beefs I have with God might seem weird but so be it. I wonder why God chose to eliminate the dinosaurs, who I suspect was a beautiful species of animal like lions or marlins are, and instead made an ugly hairless ape the dominant species. Oh, I forgot, we were made in "his image". So God looks like an ugly hairless ape? Frankly, I suspect that God doesn't look like anything. Or he looks like everything.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 2, 2015 1:29:12 GMT -5
Today I have a simple question: If there is a God, why doesn't he reveal himself? Oh, that's right, it would end our imaginary "free will". I doubt the Creator of the Universe plays silly games.
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Post by Turk on Sept 2, 2015 19:24:28 GMT -5
Today I have a simple question: If there is a God, why doesn't he reveal himself? Oh, that's right, it would end our imaginary "free will". I doubt the Creator of the Universe plays silly games. Ha as an atheist I have faith those that have faith have nothing of substance to grab a hold of. People will believe what they want, that's good. I just don't by into the rch money making schemes.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 22, 2015 21:39:17 GMT -5
Time for a break from all the political hokum, and talk about religious hokum. Now I believe in God, just probably not the Christian Bible God. For instance, it appears to me that God has made the universe in such a way that there are at least two sides to every issue, such as abortion or homosexuality or the role of women, and he does not take sides. Sorry, Moses, your commandments are a crock IMHO. Also, he made a zero-sum universe, that is, you can't have your cake and eat it too. I mean, he's God, and he could have made a universe where you COULD have your cake and eat it too, couldn't he?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 22, 2015 22:38:13 GMT -5
And just so you don't think I just pick on Christianity, I'll tell you what I think about Islam. Not that I know a heck of a lot about it, but Islam seems to be hogwash also. As far as I can tell though, no more hogwash than Christianity.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 2, 2015 12:56:46 GMT -5
When you are stuck in beautiful (or ugly) isolation at home in the burbs, you occasionally get rchy people at your door. Today I got Jehovah's Witnesses, asking me "What is the key to happy family life?". Well, I was mostly interested in getting back to my meatloaf sandwich, so I tried to blow them off as quickly as possible, just taking their little pamphlet. So I was reading it while I was stuffing my face, and it claimed that God was the "Originator of family life". Oh, so He is the guy to blame for the fiasco that is the nuclear family, just like with everything else. When I get to Heaven, I'm going to have to have some words with Him.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 3, 2015 0:58:00 GMT -5
So who's to blame for the latest school shooting? God, of course. He made the loonie shooter, didn't he? Oh, I suppose the Christians have some theological argument to blame the shooter himself and let God off the hook, but they've had 2,000 years to come up with zillions of excuses for God's bloody eff ups. Alas, since I don't talk to any Christians since I was put out to pasture, I won't know what they will say. I try to listen to Preacher Glenn or Preacher Mike on 760 as much as time allows but I haven't heard any alibis for God yet. I guess they assume we think God is somehow not to blame. Not me. God has blood all over his hands.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 10, 2015 23:41:03 GMT -5
If God really hates abortions, why did He invent them? Why didn't He make pregnancy abortion proof?
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Post by jdredd on Oct 11, 2015 18:56:13 GMT -5
My illness has inspired me to a rant. Really, what kind of moronic "Intelligent Design" would make humans so vulnerable to so many maladies and diseases? Makes no sense. And on another subject, I was under the impression that Christians were tasked by their God to reach out to their fellow man to save their souls. Not happening here, is it? In fact, my perception of Christians is they hide out in their corny mega-rches and point fingers at the evil folks outside. They are too busy calling women who have abortions "murderers" to do anything else, I guess. Sorry, Christians, it leads me to believe your "awesome" God is pretty damn pathetic, and your evangelical kung-fu is weak. You are as ineffective as most conservatives are cowardly. And I won't even waste my breath on Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 22, 2017 15:03:18 GMT -5
I want the world to know (like they care) that I take no blame for anything the US does to Korea. I blame Trump and all the so-called "God-fearing" people who voted for him. Why is it religious Americans seem to be the biggest warmongers? But even beyond that, I blame God for creating them. He's God, he must have known they were evil. Sadly, since there is no God in the Judeo-Christian sense, I suspect the Universe couldn't care less what humans do to each other.
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Post by jdredd on May 23, 2018 3:14:28 GMT -5
I blame Trump for my present funk. I blame Trump on God.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 11, 2019 1:56:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/science/snail-dead-george-species.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage"It is said that artists are never fully appreciated until they die. The same goes for snails, apparently. For roughly a decade, the land snail species Achatinella apexfulva, which used to be plentiful on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, was believed to be down to a single survivor. His name was George, and he lived his last days alone in a terrarium in Kailua, Hawaii, alongside an ample supply of fungi (a food his ancestors liked to scrape off leaves in the wild). But on Jan. 1, George died, according to Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources. He lived to about age 14 — a good, long life for a snail of his kind, experts say. His death was symbolic of a steep decline in the population of land snails, once a fantastically diverse group of mollusks in Hawaii, as well as the rapid extinction of species around the world." Now here is some news that is actually meaningful to me. Who wants to believe in a God who lets this happen? Better just to believe in a random universe.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 25, 2019 4:33:53 GMT -5
I blame God for sticking me in this dismal century.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 10, 2019 16:25:15 GMT -5
On the other hand, it's not that God has cursed me with living in uneventful times, it's that He cursed me with caring.
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