To limit one's family size for economic reasons is to demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God of the universe to provide an heritage for you and to meet your family's needs.
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God has blessed us so much, I can't afford to feed you all.
Every sperm is sacred.
To take penicillin for health reasons is to demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God of the universe to provide health care for you.
Oh, and Paul, perhaps you've forgotten:And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (Matt 4:6-7)
Because, as everyone knows, you're only truly blessed if God doesn't down your family through David Rollin's "unimaginable plagues" but makes sure everyone does so that you'll magically have enought to provide for your family, no matter what.
Hey, Paul, I'm a little short right now, myself. You think you can get the Sovereign sky daddy to lend me a few sovereigns until my hunchback brother straightens out?
um ...
are you saying that people should have as many kids as humanly possible, because god will provide for them all?
yeah. i think you are.
that's rather ridiculous, my friend. some people simply do not have the money to create a never-ending stream of children. it ends there. why would god want people to do that, anyways?
Yes. God would never allow people to be poor. As evidenced by the global absence of poor people.
And now, for fun, does anybody know if a greater percentage of religious individuals are poor or come from a poor background? 'Cause I know this is the case with countries, but don't know the stats on individuals.
Because God will take care of you, even if you are poor and have many mouths to feed, including your own. You don't need anything else but to bend over and shove all that fundie crap through your ass.
When God opens up the checking account for everybody. Then we will listen to your bullshit.
P.S. Were getting a little crowded. So unless we can start stacking ourselves on top of each other. We can slow down the birthrate.
behold!! woman as baby factory!!
only a man, or a brainwashed woman would say this. Child birth is still dangerous, even in the west with our medical facilities.
and only a fundie could think that the wherewithall to raise a platoon of kids will be provided by god. It's more likely to be welfare provided through taxation
And when you can't afford to feed, clothe or house your children, it's ok to keep pumping them out?
Gawd you are beyond stupid.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it....
We have replenished the earth and subdued it, we can stop now.
Having said that you do realise many people who are christians are starving right now? You know, in south america, in africa... But I suppose they should be happy because gods have a plan for their slow, painful dying?
If this person is living in a 3rd world country, and never had any chance at real education, taught mostly by the government-controlled preachers, their thoughts are not surprising. If they had the privilege to be raised in a country where
-clean water and electricity
are provided FREE, then SHAME ON THEM for their jaw-dropping SELFISHNESS. God will provide for them through the stoopid liberal intellectuals, who come up with concepts like 'welfare' and 'toleration'.
You notice how the people who trust in g0d, need human assistance to keep going?
When was the last time g0d signed a welfare check?
A heritage? From g0d? It doesn't work that way. Unless your human daddy provided for your needs for the rest of your life, you are expected to build your own heritage.
When your god provides a college fund for all of the kids he wants my wife to pump out, as well as pays the mortgage on a bigger house and foots for the groceries, then he can dictate how many kids we must have.
To FAIL TO limit one's family size for economic reasons is to demonstrate a lack of TOWARDS ONES FAMILY AND the sovereign God of the universe to provide AMD IS A SELFISH MEANS OF TRYING OT PROVIDE an heritage for you IN YOUR OLD AGE, and UTTER NEGLECT OF THE NEED to meet your family's needs. IT CAN ALSO MEAN SPONGING OFF OTHERS VIA SOCIAL ASSISTANCE JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T USE A CONDOM OR CAN HAVE A QUIET WANK IF THE NEED IS TOO GREAT.
To limit one's family size for economic reasons is to demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God ...
So did God will man to put in things like food stamps and Medicaid "to provide an heritage for you and to meet your family's needs"?
It sounds like God is a liberal.
Perhaps. Or perhaps the creator hopes you'll use the intelligence you were given and create a family of a size you can actually care for and provide for.
Speaking from both experience and statistics, areas where families are very large also tend to be areas where extreme poverty is endemic. And to a great extent, the overall level of health is proportional to the poverty level.
It's always nice when you know God's will so completely coincides with your own best interests that you don't have to do a single thing to help yourself.
Likewise, to use one's brake pedal to slow one's car for safety reasons is to demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God of the universe to protect one and keep one from harm.
Also, locking one's doors at night clearly shows how little one believes in 'fearing no evil', whatever God's infallible word says.
And don't forget, one is specifically told in that self same bible that no poison nor venomous creature will hurt one if one is one with the Lord. So putting one's bleach, or pills, or poisons, out of reach of the younger members of one's family is a fart in the face of God himself!
One should let one's children play in the road, by the lake, on disused lots, with strange men, or the paraquat, or on the roof of one's moving car. One's own and one's family's safety is obviously God's responsibility, because one wouldn't want to have to be responsible oneself, would one?
What a onetard!
To resort to modern medicine is to demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God of the universe to follow through on what he clearly said in the Bible about faith healing. If you're not going to follow the entire Bible, don't preach any of it to the rest of us.
Also, am I the only one who's noticed that it's the poorest neighborhoods that have a church on every corner?
But, Paul Barber, it's CATHOLICS who believe in ginormous families with no birth control.
You wouldn't want to be CATHOLIC, would you?
"An heritage," right. I am so sure you really say "an heritage" in real life. Ha ha, no way. Start thinking for yourself, please. Mindless, affected Bible-thumping.
As for the premise, I believe God expects us to think. Thinking includes not having kids who'll have to go without healthy food, medical care, a good education, and a bit of security. Have you missed those parts of the Bible which communicate the idea of acting responsibly, and not making others' lives miserable? Don't make your kids' lives miserable by having too many of them. And then there's the matter of the mother's health. I think God expects us to take care of our health, not run it into the ground. Too many pregnancies are a terrible drain on a woman's health.
Just for the record, if people want children, is there any other reason to reduce the size of the family?. I will put it more simply, is there any other reason, in general, TO LIVE, outside economy, or outside that it is not ultimately connected?
Christianity and other religions that encourage childbirth and prohibit birth control are almost entirely at fault for all the starvation and resource shortages that are now occuring in the world.
Even if you look at it from their point of view: The Bible says 'reproduce and multiply and fill the earth'. Notice that last part. Fill the Earth. THE EARTH IS FULL NOW STOP IT.
I know others have already posted it. I just thought about the theory that the more older brothers a guy has, the larger the chance of him turning out gay. Wonder how many of these fine, upstanding boys are gay...
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Other things that demonstrate a lack of trust in the sovereign God:
- seatbelts
Either go live in a cave or join us in the real world, you idiot.
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