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God is alive!

  • 29-05-2011 4:02pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Bring your Dawkins books back to the library folks, the Lord has shown himself / herself.
    Atheist Converts After Mock Prayer to Win $1m Lottery is Answered:

    A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game.

    Sal Bentivegna, 28, who did not previously believe in God, had sarcastically asked his mother to “ask your God for a million dollars”.

    However, his mother Gloria Bentivegna, follows the Catholic faith, and staying true to her belief refused to ask God for such a thing.

    Taking his joke further, Sal then prayed out aloud saying, “God, I don’t know if you’re real or not, but if you are there, please let my mother win a million dollars.”

    He added, “If Jesus wants me to believe in him, that’s what he’ll do”.

    The following day his mother bought a “Lotto Tree” of unscratched instant win tickets from her Church’s charity auction. Sal was then left absolutely stunned when he found out his mother had won a million.

    Realizing that the odds of his mother winning were so farfetched, Sal has now become a firm believer.

    He testified, “I can’t shrug off that Jesus had a hand in it.”

    “No pun intended, but it was a Godsend,” he said.

    Gloria Bentivegna, reflecting on what had happened, is thankful to God for her winnings, but even more thankful for her son’s conversion. She said: “'God performed two miracles, a true miracle.”

    By winning New York’s Sweet Million game, Gloria Bentivegna will now receive $50,000 every year for the next 20 years.
    Now get on your knees and repent, you heathens.

    Source


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Alex Lifeson is God.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Praise Allah!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    If a naked woman shows up at my house with €10 million by midnight, il become a priest.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm sure there's plenty of rationalists int e wings with the whole notion of proving the affirmation rule blah de blah

    But, just for today


    IN YO FACE SUKKUHS! :P

    alla akbar aint he? ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Messi > "god" :rolleyes:


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  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Kyler Happy Coyote


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    If a naked woman shows up at my house with €10 million by midnight, il become a priest.

    Bit of a waste of the naked woman then isnt it


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    He needs some Methodism to his madness :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Alex Lifeson is God.

    well, I've actually seen Alex Lifeson so..

    God of the bible - 0
    Alex Lifeson - 1

    it's true! praise in the name of Alex Lifeson


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Very f*cking annoying when people mistake pure coincidence for a religious act. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Dear God, I hereby confirm that I will be baptised again if I win the Lotto on Wednesday.

    Amen.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Very f*cking annoying when people mistake pure coincidence for a religious act. :mad:

    Millions of people did that lottery, they didn't pray and so they didn't win.

    Are you trying to say that other people prayed they'd win too??

    I'll not have it said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    God - lol
    Religion - rofl


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    WallyGUFC wrote: »
    God - lol
    Religion - rofl

    Only a wally would say that ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'm sure there's plenty of rationalists int e wings with the whole notion of proving the affirmation rule blah de blah

    But, just for today


    IN YO FACE SUKKUHS! :P
    Nah, it could have been a coincidence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    If a naked woman shows up at my house with €10 million by midnight, il become a priest.


    After you do your deeds with her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,602 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Links234 wrote: »
    well, I've actually seen Alex Lifeson so..

    God of the bible - 0
    Alex Lifeson - 1

    it's true! praise in the name of Alex Lifeson

    Even if god did somehow exist, I doubt he could play La Villa Strangiato.

    God of the bible - 0

    Alex Lifeson - 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    A child praying that her step-father stops abusing her: God says no.
    An atheist mockingly asks that his mother win the lotto: God says yes.

    Priorities.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    I always knew God preferred atheists over believers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Millions of people did that lottery, they didn't pray and so they didn't win.

    Are you trying to say that other people prayed they'd win too??

    I'll not have it said.

    Nope. My meaning is that it's the soft headed idiots that like to base their reasoning in religion than actually coming to the realisation that it was a complete and utter coincidence.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Big titted women just don't fall from the sky


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Big titted women just don't fall from the sky
    What about when they fall off the top of a lapdancing pole?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Nietzsche will be pissed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    From Post:
    By winning New York’s Sweet Million game, Gloria Bentivegna will now receive $50,000 every year for the next 20 years.

    50,000 x 20 = 1 Million. But, from the original piece:
    Now the single mother on disability will receive $33,000 a year after taxes for the next 20 years – a miracle enough to revive her son’s spirituality.

    So she will actually only receive $660,000 in total.

    God didnt factor in the taxes. So much for being omnipotent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Dead people don't get angry. Dead women don't say no either as a matter of fact. I'm not sure where I'm going with this.....

    God is real, I'm delighted.


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,531 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Well there you have it folks, the world has changed, stupid atheists do exist!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    $$$MUNNY$$$ - The true god of Middle-earth -

    I would insert some anti-god' comment in order to impress my esteemed peers with my *scooperior intelegunce* but I figure that's it has just become a silly trend of back-patting and foppery. Who would have guessed ?! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭JBnaglfar


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Even if god did somehow exist, I doubt he could play La Villa Strangiato.

    Ah Rush, the real holy trinity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    If a naked woman shows up at my house with €10 million by midnight, il become a priest.

    If I had 10 million euro and a naked woman I would do this to see your reaction :P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    "Nah nah nah nah stupid God . I betcha cant stop thousands of children from starving to death in Africa"









    Now. Lets all hold our breath....................


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    If his mother had not bought the tickets and had just won a million dollars from a found ticket, then maybe, but no. There is no God, so clap your hands together, there is no God, so ring that victory bell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    "Nah nah nah nah stupid God . I betcha cant stop thousands of children from starving to death in Africa"









    Now. Lets all hold our breath....................

    You might want to pray for bigger lungs too


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