Will God help us during these hard times?

Splendour · 18-02-2009 02:23AM

Rb wrote: »

Which God?

The only One who could say ...

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.

No other 'gods' could ever claim this...

Húrin · 18-02-2009 02:23AM

Shocking wrote: »

As a non practising catholic I have considered going to mass to pray for help during these rather hard times.

I used to go about 5 times a year, for the right reasons, but I feel the urge to go more often now. I know it reeks of irony but has anyone else thought of doing the same?

God helps anyone who humbly asks for his help, and truly believes that he can help them.

God is a rock more solid than money as you know, and the mess here on earth doesn't affect his bottomless springs of life and love.

Mrmoe · 18-02-2009 02:23AM

Rb wrote: »

Which God?

Zeus ofc, who else do you think we were talking about:rolleyes:

partyatmygaff · 18-02-2009 02:26AM

Rb wrote: »

Which God?

Allah could send in his 72 virgins to atleast ease the stress a bit and some of the rivers of beer too and the women with asses the size of 2 miles.
(^^^^From the qur'an, dont believe me? google it)

fez22 · 18-02-2009 02:29AM

Rb wrote: »

Which God?

chesney hawkes

Mrmoe · 18-02-2009 02:33AM

fez22 wrote: »

chesney hawkes

Hes a sex God alright, bloody yummy, would make a man catch the ghey

Rb · 18-02-2009 02:33AM

I believe FSM and his many noodly appendages is more equipped to deal with our current economic situation than some "god" whos only decent trick is sending insects to p1ss off people in poor parts of the world.

fez22 · 18-02-2009 02:35AM

Mrmoe wrote: »

Hes a sex God alright, bloody yummy, would make a man catch the ghey

and its monothesism, he is the one and only after all

fabman · 18-02-2009 02:44AM

Whatever floats your boat like it wont do any harm or cost any money - but your probably better off thinking of what can be done here on planet earth!!

partyatmygaff · 18-02-2009 02:59AM

on a more serious note.
Money is just a concept, people use money to buy food, shelter, education etc etc.
God nor any religion created money. They created people who in turn as a society created the concepts of modern life as we know today such as money and trade.

God helps those who believe he can help them in life(i.e. health) but not in material things like wealth or money. Money is only good to pay for goods and services not for your health, not for your mental well being, not for your relationships and not for your happiness(Not directly in any case).

/Too deep for AH i know

Pride Fighter · 18-02-2009 03:01AM

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Is there some kind of super-God I should be praying to on Friday?

Optimus Prime.

Mena · 18-02-2009 03:28AM

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Strange seeing that you have a saint's name.

I'm sensing someone wants to be part of the cool "God doesn't exist atheism ftw crowd" on the internets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Menas

The username is from a character in a book my wife wrote, that it is the same as some saint is of no consequence to me, however if it makes you feel better then I'm happy for you.

Considering I've been an atheist for 34 years now, your last comment makes little sense. Does my lack of belief threaten yours?

K-9 · 18-02-2009 03:32AM

God helped us in hard times before.

In mysterious ways though, ask Casey.

L.R. Weizel · 18-02-2009 03:36AM

Shocking wrote: »

As a non practising catholic I have considered going to mass to pray for help during these rather hard times.

I used to go about 5 times a year, for the right reasons, but I feel the urge to go more often now. I know it reeks of irony but has anyone else thought of doing the same?

If he didn't help people when they were dying of the plague why would he now.

L.R. Weizel · 18-02-2009 03:38AM

Splendour wrote: »

The only One who could say ...

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.

No other 'gods' could ever claim this...

Why not? I'm sure Eris has dressed up in a fake beard while drunk and said this at some point.

Mena · 18-02-2009 03:38AM

Abraham Modern Walkway wrote: »

I'll say it again, this time I will put it in bold and enlarge it for your convenience.

I wasn't complaining

And as I said to you in an earlier post, I was using the "collective" you. Google it if it confuses you.

LD 50 · 18-02-2009 03:40AM

Straight from the desk of God himself:

God wrote:

Me:
Can you help us in these times?
God:
Certainly, I have an extensive built-in help system.

Splendour · 18-02-2009 08:47AM

L.R. Weizel wrote: »

Why not? I'm sure Eris has dressed up in a fake beard while drunk and said this at some point.

I'm sure she did, but that doesn't make it true...

kowloon · 18-02-2009 09:06AM

Now would be a fortuitous time to open God financial services inc. methinks.

mukki · 18-02-2009 09:22AM

OP

now is the time to make you own religion and convince your customers to give you a donation once a week

if you suceed you will be loaded like the catholic church

Loomis · 18-02-2009 09:29AM

1800-JESUS

The number you have reached...

Maybe he can't pay his phonebill due to the whole recession thing.

TwoShedsJackson · 18-02-2009 10:50AM

Shocking wrote: »

As a non practising catholic I have considered going to mass to pray for help during these rather hard times.

I used to go about 5 times a year, for the right reasons, but I feel the urge to go more often now. I know it reeks of irony but has anyone else thought of doing the same?

That's not irony, it's hypocrisy.

corkhero · 18-02-2009 11:12AM

Shocking wrote: »

As a non practising catholic I have considered going to mass to pray for help during these rather hard times.

I used to go about 5 times a year, for the right reasons, but I feel the urge to go more often now. I know it reeks of irony but has anyone else thought of doing the same?

A quite simple, No.

Time wasted praying to nothing.

Do something better with your time.

Akantha · 18-02-2009 11:23AM

God helps those who help themselves. Considering a lot of people in this country help themselves to a lot. We will all be looked after by the end game big boss.

Dave! · 18-02-2009 11:28AM

No I'd rather do something worthwhile like tickle my balls with a feather...

topper75 · 18-02-2009 12:00PM

Matthew 6:28 -
"Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin"

If we take care of our souls for eternity, which are more than the body and its life, we may leave it to God to provide for us food and clothing, which are less. Anyone here who cannot believe that?

Dave! · 18-02-2009 12:11PM

*puts up hand*

ShooterSF · 18-02-2009 01:27PM

Instead of sitting there begging for his help why don't you get up and take action. Become a pirate and you can plunder your own swag, God will be happy that you took a sacred path and you will reduce global warming! Win-Win-Win.
Some people are so selfish.

SilkySmooth · 18-02-2009 02:22PM

Botany Bay wrote: »

There is actually, evidence that religious attendance increases in times of hardship. For instance during the great depression, numbers at church increased dramatically. It seems, according to neuroscientists, that despair and emotionally stressful times garner an increased irrationality among people. They sort of need to escape into fantasy and forget reality.

So it shouldn't surprise anyone if attendances in church go up. Weak minds tend to think alike.

:rolleyes: What a load of garbage. just because you go to church it doesn't mean you have a 'weak mind'. If you made these sort of generalizations against a race of people or an ethnic group or homosexuals , you would be called 'prejudiced' and rightly so. However, it's grand to take a pop at religious people it seems.well, actually, it's not okay. It's wrong to generalize a whole group of people as irrational and weak-minded just because you don't agree with their way of life.
grow up.

TwoShedsJackson · 18-02-2009 02:28PM

SilkySmooth wrote: »

:rolleyes: What a load of garbage. just because you go to church it doesn't mean you have a 'weak mind'. If you made these sort of generalizations against a race of people or an ethnic group or homosexuals , you would be called 'prejudiced' and rightly so. However, it's grand to take a pop at religious people it seems.well, actually, it's not okay. It's wrong to generalize a whole group of people as irrational and weak-minded just because you don't agree with their way of life.
grow up.

On the other hand we know for a fact that different races of people, ethnic groups and homosexuals all definitely exsist.

Will God help us during these hard times?

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