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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts) Wed Jun 10, 2020, 12:28 PM Jun 2020

Not if I were god...

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Not if I were god... (Original Post) NeoGreen Jun 2020 OP

Christians believe in an interventionalist god Major Nikon Jun 2020 #1

Yes, they do...but that's not what the Prodigal Son depicts and that's Jesus's thumbnail Karadeniz Jun 2020 #4

A starving child will be no less starving if they beg favor from an imaginary entity Major Nikon Jun 2020 #5

+1000000 Duppers Jun 2020 #2

What kind of twisted reasoning can justify this? nt Duppers Jun 2020 #3

So if I turn up and kill your child to teach you a lesson, what will you do? uriel1972 Jun 2020 #6

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)

1. Christians believe in an interventionalist god

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 12:55 PM

Jun 2020

But when you ask why he doesn't intervene when he's really needed, the predictable answer is he works in mysterious ways we can't hope to understand.

That's why it's OK to pray to Jesus for more money.

Karadeniz

(23,546 posts)

4. Yes, they do...but that's not what the Prodigal Son depicts and that's Jesus's thumbnail

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:35 PM

Jun 2020

Sketch of the God System.

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)

5. A starving child will be no less starving if they beg favor from an imaginary entity

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 08:12 PM

Jun 2020

The conveniently unverifiable promise of reconciliation in the alleged afterlife is really nothing more than a cheap shell game designed to get people to accept their lot in life rather than rebel against it. The sketch of what Marx describes as "opium of the people" better describes it.