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True or false? (Original Post) True Dough Jun 2024 OP
No, way, Jose jcboss Jun 2024 #1
Why is it ridiculous? Voltaire2 Jun 2024 #2
Please explain your reasoning, Jose. Timeflyer Jun 2024 #5
I think therefore I am JoseBalow Jun 2024 #13
Is the JC True Dough Jun 2024 #6
It is true if..fish..had..wings Jun 2024 #3
Great analogy edhopper Jun 2024 #4
Good analogy! 👍 anciano Jun 2024 #7
Jcboss jcboss Jun 2024 #8
Not so, in the minds of those who thank God for sparing them DavidDvorkin Jun 2024 #9
Jcboss jcboss Jun 2024 #10
I think that is the point edhopper Jun 2024 #11
Who says god "is"? No evidence of that exists. JoseBalow Jun 2024 #12
The bottom line. jcboss Jun 2024 #14
Relevant... True Dough Jul 2024 #15

edhopper

(34,773 posts)
4. Great analogy
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 10:09 AM
Jun 2024

like thanking God for Cancer remission. So why is he killing so many with cancer if he can so easliy take it away.

(Not to mention how insulting that is to all the researchers and doctors.)

jcboss

(18 posts)
8. Jcboss
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 11:30 AM
Jun 2024

Because a serial killer knows which of his next victims are. A Tornado strikes at will, with no designated victims

DavidDvorkin

(19,889 posts)
9. Not so, in the minds of those who thank God for sparing them
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 11:53 AM
Jun 2024

God, who is behind every tornado and every other event, knows everything and has complete control. Therefore he has chosen the victims and the survivors.

jcboss

(18 posts)
10. Jcboss
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 12:01 PM
Jun 2024

Who says God is a "he". No one knows that.
I think God is a mother.
The house that wasn't destroyed was just pure luck

edhopper

(34,773 posts)
11. I think that is the point
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 12:32 PM
Jun 2024

those who thank God for sparing them give him/her the agency to decide what gets destroyed by a tornado. And then they don't blame God for those who are killed.
You are just applying the logic and facts to the inanity of thanking God for sparing them.
If God did spare them, isn't that the same as serial killer sparing someone?

JoseBalow

(5,138 posts)
12. Who says god "is"? No evidence of that exists.
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 01:26 PM
Jun 2024

There is nothing to suggest that gods are anything more than fictional characters.
Magical thinking has nothing to do with reality.

jcboss

(18 posts)
14. The bottom line.
Sat Jun 29, 2024, 02:48 PM
Jun 2024

Life is an illusion and you can paint the picture any color, any design, and anyway you choose. God, an illusion in the writing of the Bible in which was simply the history of that date and "time"

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