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03-18-2021, 09:43 PM
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Let's see if this discovery will persuade the Roman Catholic priests to stop molesting little boys.  |
Obviously God doesn’t care or he would stop them. He’s also not particularly concerned about children dying from starvation. Even stopping microscopic parasites from blinding his “creation” is apparently above his pay grade.
In short, God is an incompetent asshole.
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03-19-2021, 09:09 AM
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Obviously God doesn’t care or he would stop them. He’s also not particularly concerned about children dying from starvation. Even stopping microscopic parasites from blinding his “creation” is apparently above his pay grade.
In short, God is an incompetent asshole.
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If you cannot repent of your sins, seeing all the misery, suffering and sorrow in this fallen world, what makes you think you would repent if the world was all peaches and cream?
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03-19-2021, 11:10 AM
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This is a thought-provoking vid -- longer than the last one. In this we see two scientists -- one with a Ph.D in biology and the other with a Ph.D in chemistry discussing DNA. It gets really interesting at about the 14:30 mark which begins the discussion of what came first: DNA or Proteins? However, neither can exist without the other, so this presents the classical Chicken and Egg dilemma.
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03-19-2021, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by TJDave
Obviously God doesn’t care or he would stop them. He’s also not particularly concerned about children dying from starvation. Even stopping microscopic parasites from blinding his “creation” is apparently above his pay grade.
In short, God is an incompetent asshole.
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If Boxcar's version of "God" is the actual reality, then you are right...God is either an "incompetent asshole", or a heartless sadist. But Boxcar's religious views have NOTHING to do with reality, IMO. As far as I am concerned, the Christian God can be held blameless...because he doesn't exist. The Christians got it backwards. God didn't create man. MAN created God.
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03-19-2021, 04:58 PM
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If Boxcar's version of "God" is the actual reality, then you are right...God is either an "incompetent asshole", or a heartless sadist.
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Or the biggest champion of free will ever. He'll give mankind all the rope they want to hang themselves.
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But Boxcar's religious views have NOTHING to do with reality, IMO. As far as I am concerned, the Christian God can be held blameless...because he doesn't exist. The Christians got it backwards. God didn't create man. MAN created God.
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But foolish speculations aside, the bible has it right: The FOOL says in his heart there is no God.
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03-19-2021, 05:11 PM
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Or the biggest champion of free will ever. He'll give mankind all the rope they want to hang themselves.
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Yeah...sure. When little kids die of cancer or starvation...they are exercising their "free will". 
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03-19-2021, 05:29 PM
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Yeah...sure. When little kids die of cancer or starvation...they are exercising their "free will". |
When mankind sins, we are exercising our free will. And sin, by its very nature is destructive both to the sinner and to others.
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03-19-2021, 06:03 PM
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When mankind sins, we are exercising our free will. And sin, by its very nature is destructive both to the sinner and to others.
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Boxcar...you and I will never agree on things, so it's useless to keep talking to each other. Your "God" is something that's totally foreign to me, and I want nothing to do with him. I don't give a shit about this "holiness" nonsense that you surround your God with. "Holiness" means nothing to me...all I believe in is JUSTICE. If you harm me in some way, then I am gonna come after YOU...I'm not gonna take my anger out on your small child. Even the MAFIA doesn't stoop as low as to hurt someone's kids. If mankind is "sinning", and you are a God who needs to display your "holiness"...then punish the SINNERS...and leave the small children alone. Watch those unfortunate kids in those St. Jude Hospital commercials, who ask for money so they could be cured of that heinous disease...and tell me what "sin" these little kids have committed to justify their pain and suffering. And, what sort of "holiness" is your God exhibiting by allowing such travesties to take place?
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03-19-2021, 06:37 PM
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Boxcar...you and I will never agree on things, so it's useless to keep talking to each other. Your "God" is something that's totally foreign to me, and I want nothing to do with him. I don't give a shit about this "holiness" nonsense that you surround your God with. "Holiness" means nothing to me...all I believe in is JUSTICE. If you harm me in some way, then I am gonna come after YOU...I'm not gonna take my anger out on your small child. Even the MAFIA doesn't stoop as low as to hurt someone's kids. If mankind is "sinning", and you are a God who needs to display your "holiness"...then punish the SINNERS...and leave the small children alone. Watch those unfortunate kids in those St. Jude Hospital commercials, who ask for money so they could be cured of that heinous disease...and tell me what "sin" these little kids have committed to justify their pain and suffering. And, what sort of "holiness" is your God exhibiting by allowing such travesties to take place?
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As I told Hcap once, the wicked do not understand justice (Prov 28:5), and this is precisely because evil men do not want to understand God's holiness, which you just admitted.
Have a nice evening, sir.
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03-19-2021, 07:10 PM
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As I told Hcap once, the wicked do not understand justice (Prov 28:5), and this is precisely because evil men do not want to understand God's holiness, which you just admitted.
Have a nice evening, sir.
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Your usual fundamentalist tap dance.
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03-19-2021, 07:45 PM
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Your usual fundamentalist tap dance. |
Your typical rejection of scripture. 
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03-19-2021, 10:16 PM
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I want nothing to do with him..... If you harm me in some way, then I am gonna come after YOU...I'm not gonna take my anger out on your small child. ......
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You say you want nothing to do with GOD. You see, "free will", your not a robot. How do you reconcile the above to 1945 ?
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03-20-2021, 08:59 AM
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The Most Important Question in Life
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03-21-2021, 11:38 AM
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GREAT...the Israeli scientists have proven the existence of God. Let's see if this discovery will persuade the Roman Catholic priests to stop molesting little boys. |
Wait...only Roman Catholic clergy molest children?
No other religions suffer from this scourge?
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03-21-2021, 01:05 PM
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Wait...only Roman Catholic clergy molest children?
No other religions suffer from this scourge?
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All religions have their share but Catholics are particularly famous for it.
For obvious reasons.
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