I think there will have be a MASS Citation Awards system for the year 2020 and possibly for the forseeable future, a single award just will not cover it in the very least.

unfortunately their stupidity increases risks exponentially and to those outside their fairytale bubble.

OH no, not pizza, they should be praying for 3 loaves of bread and 5 fishes to be miraculously multiplied enough to feed them all, should they not IF they are true believers?

@Triphid OK. I'm willing to give your way a try.

@zeuser Oh and someone to turn water into wine as well of course....LOL

@Triphid Now that's not a bad idea, if someone can consistently pull that off I'd reconsider my own attitudes.

@Triphid Didn't pizza once come with anchovies?

@IAJO163 Yeah, can still a Seafood Supreme pizza over here with anchovies on it.
But i'd much rather have CCTV cameras in the churches and watch them pray for the fishes and bread miracle to happen as they slowly wither and starve away.

I do not think Satan is ever mentioned in the original Christian Bible???

@of-the-mountain Interesting question. In one sense that may be true. In that the original use of satan in the old testament is as a noun, in other words, 'a satan'. Satan being a word which roughly translates as adversary, with perhaps a legal edge, like 'council for the prosecution'.

One of the earliest uses being during the plagues of Egypt, when god sends a 'satan' to deliver the plagues. Notice that 'the' satan is an obedient servant of god. The bible even uses the word to describe King David as a satan to the enemies of Israel. He then evolves through the chapters, becoming gods drinking buddy in Job, helping him to torture Job, until in the end he becomes the tempter of christ in the wilderness, possibly. But that depends on how you translate names, and therefore it could be said, and is said, that there is no satan in the bible because there are many, it being a title not a name.

There is certainly no satan in the garden of eden, the snake is just a talking snake.

Just shows what a lot of inconsistant twadle you are dealing with.

@Fernapple

Satan is not even an angel, a brother, or son of god!!!

Seems like so much written by man it only appears as a form of control over good, not necessarily evil!!!

There has been somewhere around three thousand changes to the so called bible up to the King James translation!!!

LOL!!!

@of-the-mountain The Satan, who shows up in the OT, basically acted as a prosecuting attorney of sorts. It would bring people to the attention of god, such as Job, so they could be tested. It was the Christians who transformed this character into the fallen angel, leader of demons, that this god gave dominion over the earth. This, and original sin, are their way of answering why a good god allows evil. They totally ignore that their god created this Satan and loosed it on the world; so, either way, their god is responsible.

Also, who knows what was originally written and when this character was added. There are no original manuscripts, only copies of copies of copies of copies...

I'd lay even money bets that this Sky Daddy of theirs does the usual, which is Sweet F**k All.

I was taught that god is all powerful soo, he is either retarded or sadistic to allow all the suffering of "his" people on this planet. maybe he's creating another paradise somewhere else in the universe and will check back soon to see how things are coming along here. gonna be surprised.

Religion always musters up enough cognitive dissonance to account for whatever believers want to believe.

@Paul4747 I was told that if dog did this then there would be no free will.

@dalefvictor The paradox is that apparently the devil has free will to do evil, but god has no free will to do prevent it. God should at very least act as a referee and maintain a neutral playing field.

In Terry Pratchett's Good Omens, one of the characters (a demon) reflects that the devil very rarely has to make people do anything. People come up with such inventive things all by themselves. That pretty much sums it up. (If I believed in that kind of thing.) There's no need for the existence of a devil, human beings get up to all kind of mischief out of our own imaginations, and then feel we need to blame it on someone else.

There will be non cognizant casualties affected, like children.

Oh Hahahaha, quite the optimist, aincha?

@AnneWimsey Gotcha! In this matter, I just hope we all just get through this. I do not want people hurt, but if there are going to hurt people then I hope only those who are too stupid to live are affected.

But wait ! Gawd is the only one able to send plagues! Poor Satan gets a bad rap!

@AnneWimsey Bloody well does. The cosmic scapegoat!