The Hazards of Belief

MrPudding

--amadeus-- wrote: »

It is pretty uncanny though.

Of the millions of people around teh globe who have some degree of fame some of them both said nasty things about god AND died young.

Wooo, spooky.

Perhaps it should go in the "what are the chances?" thread in the christianity board.

MrP

Hellm0

Ice_Box wrote: »

If God is a murderer then we should jail all those who worship Him.

Shhhhh...meet me round back in five minutes...we have much to discuss.

kiffer

This is clearly some sort of atheist sockpuppet...
The idea is so insane that I refuse to believe people like this are allowed to walk the streets.

What criteria does god choose who to kill?
People who mock him? ok... but we know lots of people that mock God.
We also know faithful Christians that still get lung cancer...

God seems to pick random things to do...
He'll help one person on the side of the road, a friend you've not seen in years happens by...
He'll kill one mocker, but not the next.
He'll heal one person, but not any amputees ever.

I really think that this sort of thing is not meant to scare people into worship but rather to make believers look more bonkers...
I have to believe that, because I don't want to believe that people are actually thinking like this.
then again... youtube comments...

Dades

Heart-warming Christian Chain Mail I just received

Moved to this thread.

The only place where it might live out a (spuriously) relevant existence.

The Mad Hatter

kiffer wrote: »

then again... youtube comments...

I've seen the space shuttle ass hole

Look at the shape of the space shuttle...

kiffer

Ice_Box wrote: »

If God is a murderer then we should jail all those who worship Him.

If I were to deliver a threat for a crime boss, would I be guilty of a crime?
For example, "The Don says give me the gems by Sunday or He and the boys will come round and kill you, your family and your dog."

I think I would be...

AtomicHorror

pH wrote: »

Gifted pupil killed himself 'after his school sidelined Christianity for alternative religions'

I'd say he killed himself after pretty much everything that happened to him. Which just goes to show that there's a causal relationship between life and death.

The Daily Mail will be calling for a ban presently.

robindch

Seems god took a break from healing the sick in Lourdes this year to spend some time giving pilgrims acute gastroenteritis:

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19025

Grimly, health officials believe that a group of workers and patients from a Dutch mental health institute visited Lourdes and brought the bug back home with them, where the disease spread rapidly leaving around 120 people sick and four dead.

Galvasean

AtomicHorror wrote: »

there's a causal relationship between life and death.

The Daily Mail will be calling for a ban presently.

A ban on life? But, I need that to live! :eek:

robindch

From the drawer marked "batshit crazy", comes a means of preventing suicide in the military from one Rick Warren, the beard who's been asked to mouth some platitudes at Obama's inauguration next month:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/30/105157/02/379/667800

Charles Darwin is a selfish ass, and Karl Marx was a "philanthropist", And so on.

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kiffer

Tell them god is on their side and they'll go to heaven for doing his work and you can make them do anything.

You don't really want soldiers that ask questions either. Unquestioning obedience to orders given by a man you've never met, Unquestioning faith is an ideal to many military minds.

Dades

"Man is the centre of the universe" should be under 'Design'. No really.

pH

The Hazards of Confession?

Florida Woman Says Former Church Plans to Make Her Sins Public

A 49-year-old Florida woman says her former church is threatening to reveal her sins to its congregation after learning that she is in a "sexually immoral relationship."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,469928,00.html

pH

This just doesn't seem fair, God visits you with important messages for the human race, and the Vatican church sends in the inquisition!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catholics-ordered-to-keep-quiet-over-virgin-visions-1332016.html

"If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful."

robindch

Hope they check the coffee-intake too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7827761.stm

Dades

pH wrote: »

"If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful."

pH

All I know is that the next time the Virgin Mary appears to me, I'm keeping quiet.

robindch

The pension fund for God's chosen people collapses:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0115/presbyterian.html?RTEMAILID

pH

robindch wrote: »

The pension fund for God's chosen people collapses:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0115/presbyterian.html?RTEMAILID

There's a prayer for that!

As the recession bites the Church of England publishes new prayers for people affected by redundancy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5461150.ece

Goduznt Xzst

Man I love how worked up the reporter is getting in this interview

http://www.clipstr.com/videos/BrianFlemmingOnFoxNews/

Dades

Saudi court sentences 75-year-old woman to lashes

Those of you ladyfolk going to the A&A drinks beware of "mingling" with men! :pac:

Flamed Diving

Pilot who paused to pray in emergency gets 10 years

Tue, Mar 24, 2009
A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.
The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.
A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.
Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to between eight and nine years in jail by the court, in a verdict handed down yesterday.
The seven accused, who were not in court, will not spend time in jail until the appeals process has been exhausted.
Reuters
© 2009 irishtimes.com

:rolleyes:

2Scoops

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Pilot who paused to pray in emergency gets 10 years

I wondered whether this would appear first here or in the 'persecuted church' thread. :pac:

Overblood

Woman blasts her sons head off for God.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5123965/Mother-kills-son-with-a-bullet-to-back-of-head-at-Florida-shooting-range.html

Dave!

^
Was just about to post that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPnMbLr5nc

Nodin

robindch wrote: »

The pension fund for God's chosen people collapses:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0115/presbyterian.html?RTEMAILID

Ulster says 'O No'

5uspect

A friend of mine just told me about this:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7145-Detroit-Mental-Health-Examiner~y2009m4d18-HFCC-Murder-Suicide

http://www.freep.com/article/20090413/NEWS02/90413033/?imw=Y

Long story short, youtuber anti-atheism creationist stalks and murders a girl then kills himself.

OK-Cancel-Apply

5uspect wrote: »

A friend of mine just told me about this:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7145-Detroit-Mental-Health-Examiner~y2009m4d18-HFCC-Murder-Suicide

http://www.freep.com/article/20090413/NEWS02/90413033/?imw=Y

Long story short, youtuber anti-atheism creationist stalks and murders a girl then kills himself.

Yeah I've been watching theamazingatheist, venomfangx and jezuzfreek777 talk about this for the last few days.

kiffer

5uspect wrote: »

A friend of mine just told me about this:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7145-Detroit-Mental-Health-Examiner~y2009m4d18-HFCC-Murder-Suicide

http://www.freep.com/article/20090413/NEWS02/90413033/?imw=Y

Long story short, youtuber anti-atheism creationist stalks and murders a girl then kills himself.

Yeah I noticed this the day after it happened... poor chap... suffered from depression and then when it all fell apart for him he went out and killed some poor girl and himself...

I found this video (it's mocking him but listen to what he says, it's from last year...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUIEv8DlMg

I wonder if he lost his faith... and then took the whole "without God why would you not go on a killing spree..." line a little to seriously because of his depression ...

5uspect

Crazy stuff indeed.