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To: RegulatorCountry
I'm not a leftist, I'm an atheist, and I can't figure out why religious people don't notice:

1)When people who do "wrong" get sick and die, it's God's will.

2)When people who did not seem to flout God's will get sick and die, it's NOT God's will.

3)Unless maybe they did something we don't know about. Then it IS God's will again.

4)When evil people do just fine, it's not God's will. They're going to get it in the end.

5)Unless they repent. Or already did and we just don't know about it.

6)OR... He's using them for some unspecified purpose and that's why they are allowed to triumph.

In other words, you can't figure out what is God's will and what isn't. Following His mandates doesn't guarantee a life free of suffering. The world looks pretty darn random and you have to think in circles to keep up this running tab of what is God's will and what is not. Like that teenaged hemophiliac that got AIDS from a blood transfusion. God's will? No. Well, wait. Maybe. Who knows? It's almost like there's nothing up there, eh?! LOL... geez, people.

110 posted on 11/26/2011 7:53:40 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
I'm not a leftist, I'm an atheist

You keep telling yourself that, maybe you'll convince yourself it's true.

This world is corrupt, a vale of pain and suffering, of aging, disease and death that was never meant to be part of Creation. We are all subject to sin and death, every last one of us, no matter how pious, no matter how good, no matter what our works or our loves or cares or family or connections. By sin came death and death comes for us all, it's only a matter of when and a matter of how.

Some pass peacefully and they are blessed. Some leave this world screaming in pain and horror. Some are stripped of everything they ever valued and reduced to being completely dependent, while dying a lingering death. There is a means to be victorious over death, but you deny it and would rather regard yourself as some sort of oddly and inexplicably animated meat puppet, but one with morals from some strange source that you can't quite explain, and then turn your nihilist idiocy on it's ear and project it upon those who actually live the moral code you simultaneously ape and yet mock.

There are some behaviors that have earthly consequences and are judged in the here and now. You seem like a relatively sentient being and you seem to have read the scriptures you're now mocking, so I suspect you have at least enough intelligence to understand just what it is, that you're at war with and, somewhere deep down, know you're destined to lose. Make peace with your Creator, repent and believe.

That's what you need to do, while you have time. That's what we all need to do, while we have time.

111 posted on 11/26/2011 8:14:33 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: A_perfect_lady
can't figure out why religious people don't notice...

in other words, you can't figure out what is God's will and what isn't. Following His mandates doesn't guarantee a life free of suffering. The world looks pretty darn random and you have to think in circles to keep up this running tab of what is God's will and what is not.

We have thousands of years of people being wrong and misreading reality. It is sometimes described as light but while these signals are like light they are not at all light. Signals of truth are there and they are sometimes clear and sometimes weak. They are also manifestations of reality. Life is a process of experience and detecting these messages or realities. We simply do not have the capability of receiving all signals. This pretty much explains everything. No signal is random. You just can't perceive them all. For example, your memory of your mother is a signal.

Faith is required in order to perceive more signals. And Faith comes from not being able to figure it out.

127 posted on 11/26/2011 9:36:34 AM PST by alrea (Give us your government workers, your unions, your huddled masses yearning for something free.)
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