One of the most annoying things about Christians is their insistence that god takes care of them--even at the expense of others. I have a long-term friend (from the sixth grade, and that is 55 years ago) who is is nominally Catholic but is more akin to a born again. Ironically, she was raised in a nonreligious household but always "knew" that god loved her. I was raised Southern Baptist.
But to the present . . . she lives in Cali and I live in Missouri, and we mainly keep in touch on FB. She, her husband, and her sister are just completing a trip across the US and she had posted several times a day about what they have seen, and every relative and every landmark has a remark about Jesus and/or god. Niagara Falls was the splendor of god's creation, but I had to put her on a 30 day ignore when she wrote that it was raining so bad the road was obscured and asked people to pray for them. Several hours later, she posted that "god was good" because the rain stopped. I am 200% positive that prayers had nothing to do with the rain stopping.
But the inherent lack of thought and even selfishness that is apparent in these types of situation is baffling. What if the farmers in Illinois needed that rain while she is asking god to stop it?
Just musing . . .
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I was eating lunch while watching the news in a company break room a while back. They were talking about a tornado that had hit the midwest and showing videos of the devestation. An old coot sitting a few seats away said, "Ain't it amazing what the hand of God can do?" I was like, "Wait. What? I don't think god had anything to do with that." He didnt say anything else but I'm pretty sure he hated me
ronnie40356
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Oct 1, 2019
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Mentally ill people are running loose everywhere called freedom OF religion while mentally healthy Atheists are denied freedom FROM theocracy.....Congress started forcing school kids to prEy to the flag in 1955 and put the evil lie IN gawd WE TRUST ON ALL PAPER MONEY that same session and idiot Eisenhower signed the fucked up law
GreenAtheist
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Sep 30, 2019
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@Gwendolyn2018 a sixth grade classmate of mine became a famous MOONIE here in DesMoines and her mother begged me to get her out of the cult before Moon married her off to some Korean xian rapist....Diane Thielking was a tiny blond in her 30"s last I saw her outside the cult house where all the flower sales ladies slept after sitting all day on a corner with a bucket of flowers probably stolen from a dumpster or graveyard.....American Atheists are not in the business of kidnapping cult victims.....deprogramming a Moonie to restore a Presbyterian is just one cult against another....I talked to her about Hillis Elementary School and Maypole dances.....she seemed lucid and coherent about her bible verses....when I told her I was too young to ask her to go to Reeds Ice Cream with me in 1964 she blushed and said she never dated anyone up to 1984 when we talked.....it always hurts me deeply when I read how some Agnostic parents let their children go to sunday "school" to make up their own mind.....the same as letting kids try heroin....insane
@Gwendolyn2018 my daughter and I went to hear George McGovern and Dr Helen Caldecott speak about disarming nukes....inside the big cathedral in downtown Des Moines she was 9 in 1984....she asked me: " daddy, why is there a birdbath inside this building ? ....hundreds of people inside dozens heard her question shocked and horrified....I answered that is magic water for believers fingers to cross themselves wet called a holy water font....the red faced people kept staring at us both when I said let's sit close to the front so we can hear and don't trip on the carpet knee pad rails
And yet the same people who will in all seriousness claim god changed the weather or the laws of physics for their personal convenience will look at a terrible disaster or human tragedy and state in all seriousness that "It is all part of gods plan."
Pillocks!
LenHazell53
Level 9
Sep 30, 2019
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Why would god change any of his plan just for her?
DenoPenno
Level 9
Sep 30, 2019
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Well according to the Mormons god keeps a tally of how much tithing you pay and if you are "honest" in your tithing you are entitled to "expect" miracles, but if you are dishonest god will have hurt feelings is less likely to help out when you need him, "after all would you want to help someone who stole off you."
I'm not making this shit up, we had lessons on this and printed textbooks to read it out of.
I remember hearing people (especially youngish women) taking about being in a huge parking lot and finding a parking space just where they needed it and god was soo good to them. And I'm thinking millions of starving babies and god takes the time to clear a parking space for you. Yeah right.
HippieChick58
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Sep 30, 2019
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My cousin Diana said the exact same thing !!
I told her " I tell you Diane, but I ALWAYS drive to the front of the lot and almost always find a parking spot close to the store"
No solution to "Who'll Stop the Rain." Other's have asked the same question.
ChurchLess
Level 7
Sep 30, 2019
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You might want to point out to her that she is looking like a fool (in some circles anyway) because she keeps mentioning god or jesus in everything she does. Ask her what she would think of you if you loved satan that much... or if you mentioned you were Atheist that much.
Seems similar to me like couples who fight in front of everyone and just don't care. There is a time and a place for everything. Take that shit home with you... I don't want to hear it!
Or... tell her god/jesus only loves her in church and they should only be mentioned there!
RiverRick
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Sep 30, 2019
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@Gwendolyn2018 Hey... .I have/had a friend I have known since I was 9 and he was 6. We have continuously hung out over the years. He somehow went down the slippery slope with Trump and is now a conspiracy theorist... I had to end it. Life is too short!
It sounds like you don't get together with your friend... You are only FB friends at this point. So your mileage may vary...
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