Do you believe in God?
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With all the horrible things that go on in the world can you really judge people who do not believe?
I'm on the fence as there are so many possibilities and we're smaller than gut bacteria is to us If we compare ourselves to the cosmos, but If there is a God I want to know why he does nothing when a child is brutally beaten and/or raped and killed, one every x seconds probably dies that way.
That makes me think If there is indeed a God he's either not that good or indifferent to us like we are to insects, which to me would mean that maybe God doesn't understand us entirely.
I'm on the fence as there are so many possibilities and we're smaller than gut bacteria is to us If we compare ourselves to the cosmos, but If there is a God I want to know why he does nothing when a child is brutally beaten and/or raped and killed, one every x seconds probably dies that way.
That makes me think If there is indeed a God he's either not that good or indifferent to us like we are to insects, which to me would mean that maybe God doesn't understand us entirely.
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Reversals into rationalism I can understand... unbelievers becoming full-on theists would be the "man bites dog" half of this equation, however.
There are no atheists in foxholes, smugly proclaim the religionists. But as philosopher Michel de Montaigne snarkily responded back in the sixteenth century, "What kind of Faith can we expect that should be, that Cowardize [sic] and want of Courage does establish in us? A pleasant Faith, that does not believe what it believes, but for want of Courage to believe it?". Time to turn the temperature on that lake of fire up a notch or two before we lose our prospective audience completely... /s
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Someone objected to something I posted in the funny pic thread.
"Really?" is a relative question. What's real here?
As for your video, I think the question raised by the cartoon isn't "how did Mary get pregnant?" since this is all conjecture anyway and we have no means of independent verification. After all, the end result is the same regardless of the physical method of impregnation.
The question is why. Why use a human woman as a host to bear your child when you can speak whole universes into existence? Moreso, one which was already married to someone else? No wonder Joseph is pissed in the cartoon.
"Really?" is a relative question. What's real here?
As for your video, I think the question raised by the cartoon isn't "how did Mary get pregnant?" since this is all conjecture anyway and we have no means of independent verification. After all, the end result is the same regardless of the physical method of impregnation.
The question is why. Why use a human woman as a host to bear your child when you can speak whole universes into existence? Moreso, one which was already married to someone else? No wonder Joseph is pissed in the cartoon.
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Basically Jesus is Hercules. I don't think he usually gets the title of demi-god but it fits*. Smash cut to Jesus singing "I'm just an ordinary demi-guy. Hey it's your day to say you're welcome, 'cause I'm gonna need your love".
* Yes, I know technically Christians don't see Jesus as a demi-god.
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