Did a friend just happen to call when you were down in the dumps and say just what you needed to hear to cheer you up again? Don’t credit your friend, credit God. Did a song come on the radio that uplifted your soul? That was God talking to you. Did an image of Jesus hugging you flash into your mind when you were going through your daily routine? That was God, communicating His love for you. Did some random billboard on the side of the road turn your mind in some encouraging direction? It wasn’t a coincidence, it was God talking to you. God is always talking to you. When you forget to put something on the grocery list and it suddenly pops into your mind before you checkout, that was God helping you. When you stumble across some site on the internet that helps you solve some annoying problem in life, that’s God talking to you.
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Even though this is Anna Diehl we're talking about, this doesn't entirely deserve to be here. That's providence for you - in place of the randomness of luck and the inevitability of fate, providence has eyes. Not so much "Because God" than the idea that an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God was behind it all, having numbered each hair on our bonce.
I didn't realize we lived in The Sims with the proactive AI box unchecked.
literally every single thing that happens down to every last bug that hits your windshield is a direct action on the part of god doesn't deserve to be added to the list of crazy superstitious nonsense?
What exactly was the point of giving people free will if God determines everything they do anyway? That'd be like him condemning people to eternal torture for doing evil things after he forced them to do those things.
is how the made-up sociopath you call God works, isn't it.
Did a baby just get born without a brain? Don't credit evolution, credit God. Did a baby just get born with cancer? Don't credit evolution, credit god. Did a bunch of children die today of starvation? Don't credit society, thank god for that. Did a child just get raped by a priest? Don't credit the priest, thank god for that. A Jewish boy gets herpes during his circumcision? Don't credit the mohel, thank god for that.
You can't just pick the good stuff. God gets credit for all of the bad stuff, too. After all, he made everything (including evil) and he made it knowing exactly what would happen. And everything that happens is "god's will", you know. If he didn't want it to happen, he wouldn't will it this way. If he didn't will it to happen, it wouldn't be this way. All of the crap in the world today is "god's will".
No, I`m pretty sure it was Matt on the phone, thnaks for the nuts though, nothing breaks the routine like a bit of mental disturbance!
Or, it's all random coincidence.
I could almost blow this off as yet another "everything good is because of God" Christian if it weren't for Anna, who also believes "everything bad is because of God, too, but you still have to love him because he's God."
> You can't just pick the good stuff. God gets credit for all of the bad stuff, too. After all, he made everything (including evil) and he made it knowing exactly what would happen. And everything that happens is "god's will", you know. If he didn't want it to happen, he wouldn't will it this way. If he didn't will it to happen, it wouldn't be this way. All of the crap in the world today is "god's will".
Uh, yeah, and Anna DOES believe that. Pay attention.
See, the thing I like about Anna is that she's consistent. She doesn't do the trick most Christians do of only crediting God for the good stuff and shifting responsibility for the bad. This, this is kind of mediocre. It's not as vile as some of the stuff she posts but not as demented as most fundies either. I meh.
And when the doctor tells you you've got liver cancer, that was God's doing, too. And when your entire village is wiped out by an earthquake, that was God communicating - well, I don't know what, but it must be something important. In fact, when you drop a glass, that's God smashing it to the floor just to piss you off. And if you pray for a seven at the craps table, He'll sometimes give you one; but only about one time in six, because gambling is sinful. And don't forget all those pretty, six-sided snowflakes He sits there crocheting for us.
Did you develop cancer after smolimg a pacl a day for 20 years? Don't blame the cigarette industry, blame God.
Did Josh Duggar molest his underage siblings? Don't blame Josh, blame God.
Did you just lose your job, because your company has moved it's factories overseas to maximize profits? Don't blame management, blame God.
Did a drunken driver just mow down your child in a crosswalk? Don't blame the driver, blame God.
Shal I go on? If God gets all the credit for any good thing that you experience, he has to accpet all the blame for every bad thing that happens as well.
Meanwhile, you're gonna find all of that drying up as friends stop talking to you because you refuse to show them any gratitude, people are going to put less effort into helping you because you're an ungrateful bitch, and eventually, you'll be reduced to just you and your ego thinking that it's another one of God's tests.
And on the small chance you die and actually see God, he's gonna ask you what the FUCK you were thinking by showing ingratitude towards people, since he's a desert god and in the desert, hospitality is sacred - and you spat on it your entire life.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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