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'If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive': Will Wheaton belittles faith-based beliefs
Daily Mail ^ | 11-06-2017 | Chris Spargo

Posted on 11/06/2017 7:43:00 AM PST by ZagFan

A former child star found himself under attack on Sunday after he managed to impugn the religious beliefs held by millions of Americans in a tweet slamming Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

Will Wheaton responded to the deadly shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Sunday by tweeting: 'The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of s***.'

He fired off that tweet in response to Speaker Ryan's boilerplate response to the attack which left 26 dead, in which he stated: 'Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now.'

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To: ZagFan

I love how atheists always mock Christians when bad things happen - blaming God for “doing” the bad thing to us.

To them, WE are the ignorant, uneducated, fools who fall for everything...

If they would only do THEIR homework...


41 posted on 11/06/2017 8:05:22 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: mad_as_he$$
Haven’t seen Will on BBT theory for a couple of seasons, minor part at best.

He was on last week's first run episode.

42 posted on 11/06/2017 8:05:25 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: ZagFan

“Wheaton lives with generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression.”

according to wikipedia.


43 posted on 11/06/2017 8:06:23 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Red Badger

TNG was hard to watch mostly because of Wil.

DS9 was better anyway.

I’ll take new ones on YouTube over any of the post originals.


44 posted on 11/06/2017 8:06:50 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
We are free to act as we see fit.

Exactly!! Without free will, faith means nothing. A choice to worship the Lord actually means something.

45 posted on 11/06/2017 8:07:20 AM PST by proud American in Canada ( I appear to have accidentally deleted my tagline. :()
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To: ZagFan

Fwiw, he apologized:

https://twitter.com/wilw/status/927303064863645696?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet


46 posted on 11/06/2017 8:08:28 AM PST by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: wally_bert

His character was annoying, very annoying.....................


47 posted on 11/06/2017 8:10:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: mad_as_he$$

He was on BBT last week. I guess I’ll have to stop watching it, no great loss, it hasn’t been that great the last few seasons.


48 posted on 11/06/2017 8:11:48 AM PST by techetiger
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To: ZagFan

“Shut up Wesley!”


49 posted on 11/06/2017 8:12:35 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: mlizzy

A ‘NON-APOLOGY’ apology, as per usual..........I’m sorry I pissed you off, but I’m not sorry I said it, essentially...........


50 posted on 11/06/2017 8:13:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: bgill

I no longer watch The BBT, which I once loved. It’s really gone stale. So very very easy to turn off the TV set.


51 posted on 11/06/2017 8:14:49 AM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: bgill

If prayers did anything, they’d still be alive, you worthless sack of s*”

Uh...Will...according to the Christian religion they ARE still alive and in a better place.


52 posted on 11/06/2017 8:20:18 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: ASOC

Directed at Will Wheaton -

All prayers are answered. Sometimes the answer is “No”, and while the reasons are not immediately apparent to the petitioner, over time, the wisdom of the Deity shall prevail in the end.

The Universe can be a cruel and unforgiving place, if taken at face value. Patience and application of accumulated experience can find those tiny crevices and indentations on what may appear to be a sheer rock face, and what seemed an insurmountable obstacle may eventually be overcome.

The souls of the individuals who died at the hands pf Devin Patrick Kelly have gone to their own Last Judgment, and the Lord, in His mercy, weighed them on His balance.

For the survivors, each has to find a personal way back, but know, that the Lord shall lead a way for each of them to reconcile to the harsh reality of that day.


53 posted on 11/06/2017 8:20:42 AM PST by alloysteel (The rhetorical question, "How stupid can you be?" is just considered to be a challenge by some.)
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To: techetiger
He was on BBT last week. I guess I’ll have to stop watching it, no great loss, it hasn’t been that great the last few seasons.

I think BBT jumped the shark several years ago. It went against the premise of the show when they started hooking the nerds up with fairly hot women. And Sheldon and Leonard are starting to look rather middle-aged. Ah well, all comedies eventually run out of ideas.

FWIW, the episode in which Sheldon squares off against Will Wheaton in the Mystic Lords of Ka'a tournament was one of the best episodes. Wheaton played a jerk, which apparently required little acting on his part.

54 posted on 11/06/2017 8:21:27 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: techetiger

Just about everyone associated with BBT is a big-time Trump-hating liberal. Do a search on (insert actor’s name here from BBT) hates trump and you will find all sorts of articles on BBT members and Chuck Lorre hating on the Donald.


55 posted on 11/06/2017 8:22:17 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: ZagFan

Says the “Ja Ja Binks” of the entire Star Trek Franchise.

(((As a Trek Fan from Day One, I can tell you unequivocally that “Wesley Crusher” was the most despised character of the entire series of series.)))


56 posted on 11/06/2017 8:23:53 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: TigerClaws
I wonder if he was raped by Pedowood?

He starred with Corey Feldman in "Stand By Me" and they are close to the same age so it's entirely possible.

57 posted on 11/06/2017 8:29:36 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: proud American in Canada

I ridicule lefties that spout off about how “stupid” believers are.

Immediately tell them they’re offending billions of people and that they’re just an arrogant, hate filled, dictionary definition of a bigot. Followed with “prove it”. When they admit they can’t you tell them how stupid they must be to bring up a topic, offend the billions, only to not be able to make an argument as you’ve no proof. ...then remind them they’re a bigot, again.

One guy deleted all his posts.


58 posted on 11/06/2017 8:31:38 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ZagFan

Maybe he should change his name to Chaffton?

In any case, I often encounter individuals who utilize standing in judgment of God or ridiculing prayer as a form of scoffing. The line of logic goes that the Lord knows what is gonna happen and if he is god then he could direct outcomes so he is actually the cause of people’s choices.

It is, frankly, pointless to argue about things like the validity of human wills and choice (though I often do) because the first principals of many who make such assertions disallows the very entity they are in fact mocking: rather the mocking is directed at believers who are foolish enough not to be secular as they are secular. The underlying assumption seems to be nothing less than atheism is rational and scientific, so theism (Christianity in particular) is seen a irrational and unscientific.

On one level there is a deep confusion about rationality and philosophy that only grows worse the deeper into secular modern and post-modern thought that a person subsides; and, on top of this is a common confusion about what “science” is even fit to study.

Gone from the minds of many is the thought that philosophy is in fact the Queen of Sciences because it is the study of Man, what it means to be Man, because men have been reduced to objects of anthropological study. There is no sense that as men we should be especially interested in what it means to be Man (”Man” in that sense is dubious) and what Terence once postulated, I’m human so nothing human is alien to me, is now cast aside as different groups seek to set forth turf which only those with their cultural experiences and history can understand. Indeed, modern political thought often cannot abide the suggestion that there is a universality about Mankind in place of compartmentality (for want of a better term at the moment) and doubly abhorrent is the idea of a single valid righteousness before which all men are liable. Far too lacking in nuance!

Science (sociology), it often seems, is for every man not so much going his own way and doing right in his own eyes but for being defined by and going the way of the subgroup which most describes them. It justifies the proverbial tall grass of subcultures even if “science” has yet to embrace such wild abandon the way it has now with sexual deviancy and (in some circles) gender identity confusion.

Most people mocking faith are shallows-dwellers in all this, not the deep thinkers. They are tag alongs. Ironically such individuals, soaked in myths about science and sociology rather than having to face factoids about the rational limits of all their craft that actual scientist must occasionally deal with, may be much harder to reason with than the scientist and philosophers they believe they are enlightened by.


59 posted on 11/06/2017 8:32:27 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Thanks. I only watch on on-demand so I am always a couple of weeks behind.


60 posted on 11/06/2017 8:32:51 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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