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Posted on 01/15/2013 7:32:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
excellent and so so true
In my consderable experience as a grieving parent with many other contacts of same, even people who question, lash out or lose their religious faith after losing a child are better off than those who don’t have any belief in an eternal spirit at all. In fact those of us who make THEM doubt THEIR beliefs usually offer some comfort in that, over the long term (I have seen this over a period of more than 10 years)
The only comfort in an atheist’s miserable existence is knowing that he/she is vastly smarter than those benighted worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
A Dennis Prager tour de force. Thanks for posting this.
A Dennis Prager tour de force. Thanks for posting this.
Many atheists I have encountered are quite arrogant about their intelligence, and in fact, many do seem quite intelligent. But as you point out, intelligence is not wisdom.
Apart for a transcendent God establishing objective moral standards of right and wrong what could ever make suffering (or anything else for that matter) "unjust"?
Very Good!
Dennis Praeger is a very wise man.
powder..patch..ball FIRE!
NRO website has so many popups and ads I can’t even justify going there to read an article anymore.
I agree.
One thing I have seen more than once is that atheists not only deny the existence of God but they hate him as well. Makes no sense but it is instructive.
Wisdom is more valuable than intelligence in the long run.
To me, the capacity to, and experience of, loving another and being fulfilled by the love of another shoots gaping holes through the premise of atheism. Love transcends flesh and matter. It matters that a person is willing to sacrifice self for the well-being of another. The willingness and devotion involved with such self-denial implies that, deep down whether we admit it or not, atheist or not, we all believe intrinsicly that there is more than just the physical world than we see.
Atheism offers no resurrection, proving its authenticity.
Other atheist consolations for Sandy Hook:
1. Think of the savings in education costs!
2. YOU are still alive, so stop complaining!
3. Think of the economic stimulus! There’s spending on funerals, spending on new security measures. We’re in an economic downturn and every bit helps!
4. Flying Spaghetti Monster! LOL! That never gets old.
OK, I’ll stop now...
Prager ping....
I cannot imagine how I could have coped with the loss of one of my sons without my religion.
I truly pity the nonbeliever, but I have yet to meet one who was not an arrogant twit.
But for its truth? Not so much.
Agreed.
Probably the only one here tho :-)
People with weak uncertain or challenged faith struggle with the concept that “God” is unjust impotent or uncaring ... or worse... and took their child or simply let evil occur and let them die. This concept reassures atheists who do not want to believe there is such a God, or if there is- to respect or submit to Him.
Over 10 years of networking with grieving parents, I believe that people who have faith or who can find it, come to the idea that God did not “take” their child, but received them at the moment of death, and that each of us no matter what age has a personal connection God and with His presence at the separation of spirit from body at end of life, it's not an impersonal process that is in the control of a 3rd party, even a loving parent, and as a result none of us is ever really alone and will all follow the same path, when it is our time.
I saw an interview with this doctor on FOX Business and look forward to getting his book
After their sin, Adam and Eve hid themselves from the presence of God. God asked, “Where are you?” After the Sandy Hook sin, atheists asked, “Where was God?”
God asked the correct question.
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