Atheists & Agnostics

Random Boomer

(4,249 posts) Mon Aug 23, 2021, 12:33 PM Aug 2021

"God is good"

This morning I read an article about the catastrophic flooding in Tennessee and I need to vent.

A woman lost her twin 7-month-old babies, who were ripped away by the rushing waters and drowned. All of her family's meager possessions were lost as well. But she declared "God is good" because her neighbors pooled together enough money to pay for her children to be buried.

I just...

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"God is good" (Original Post) Random Boomer Aug 2021 OP

If God is not good, God is not God. If God is good, God is not. nt AndyS Aug 2021 #1

Whatever it takes to think like this, I aint got. Warpy Aug 2021 #2

God is holding a 2000 year grudge because some woman ate some fruit. LakeArenal Aug 2021 #3

If her faith is all she has left, don't knock her for it The Blue Flower Aug 2021 #4

That's why I'm venting here and not in the Comments section of the newspaper Random Boomer Aug 2021 #5

AndyS

(14,559 posts)

1. If God is not good, God is not God. If God is good, God is not. nt

Reply to Random Boomer (Original post)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 12:52 PM

Aug 2021

Warpy

(113,130 posts)

2. Whatever it takes to think like this, I aint got.

Reply to Random Boomer (Original post)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 12:54 PM

Aug 2021

When I read stories like this one, I think they're welcome to it.

LakeArenal

(29,797 posts)

3. God is holding a 2000 year grudge because some woman ate some fruit.

Reply to Random Boomer (Original post)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 01:05 PM

Aug 2021

Sacrificed his own son for pretty much nothing

Sacrificing twins is no big deal to it, god, whatever.

The Blue Flower

(5,636 posts)

4. If her faith is all she has left, don't knock her for it

Reply to Random Boomer (Original post)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 01:27 PM

Aug 2021

Random Boomer

(4,249 posts)

5. That's why I'm venting here and not in the Comments section of the newspaper

Reply to The Blue Flower (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 01:30 PM

Aug 2021

This is a discussion thread for atheists, where I presume I can safely vent (as noted in my OP) without "knocking" anyone for their irrational reliance on an abusive relationship with their god.

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