It is said that Mussolini (the Italian dictator), once stood on a pinnacle and cried, "God, if you are there, strike me dead!" When God didn't immediately bow to his dictates, Mussolini then concluded that there was no God. However, his prayer was answered some time later.
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"It is said that Mussolini (the Italian dictator), once stood on a pinnacle and cried, "God, if you are there, strike me dead!""
Given that there is no record of Mussolini engaging in such a purile stunt.....
"It is said that Mussolini (the Italian dictator), once stood on a pinnacle and cried, "God, if you are there, strike me dead!"
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Nothing more needs to be said , Ray Cumfart. [/7.65mm Aspirin ]
God started one of the bloodiest conflicts in the history of human civilization to kill one man? Wow. How... well stupid, of course, but also how incredibly abhorrent of your god. Was his aim that poor or was Mussolini inexplicably immune to his magic? And why are we supposed to be worshipping this douchebag you propose, again?
Fuck me Ray, you mean he died later on? Obviously that must be very unusual, and people must completely fail to fucking die all the time... which explains all those multi-centenarians that are all over the fucking place.
Or, you're a fucking idiot...
Oh, and Ray? Repeating a false claim just means you're lying... the weasel phrase "it is said" doesn't fool anyone, not even your God. (who has a right fucking hard-on for torturing those who lie...)
If I were a fascist dictator, I might be worried. Because, you know, it seems that things rarely end well for them.
And I'd really like to see the evidence that Il Duche ever did that.*
There appear to be reasonably competent sources for the Mussolini quote, or variations thereof. It seems to have been a rhetorical device that he used several times during his early days.
Strange that God used some Communist Partisans as its chosen method though.
I'm guessing that between that incident and April 28 1945, Gawd was too busy allowing Hitler to slaughter the Jews (y'know - his chosen people), passing the popcorn to Zeus while they watched the Rape of Nanking, and turning a blind eye to the fire-bombing of Dresden, to bother with smiting Mussolini. And in the end, he ended up sub-contracting the smiting out to a bunch of communists.
You know, being a believer in some sort of Higher Power, I see this as the only thing Banana Man said that's semi-reasonable.
But with a huge emphasis on SEMI because it's still dumb!
That said, it's still dumb because the mythical Big Guy In The Sky didn't zoarch Stalin, Pol Pot, Pinochet, etc.
Namely because a LITERAL God (or deities as actual beings) do not exist!
The majority of dictators do end up being killed. Although there are a few famous exceptions - like Stalin, Mao or Thatcher.
Would it not be more logical to see the hand of God in their deaths, than in the deaths of those who perished violently?
God, if you are there, strike Ray Comfort dead!
And when it eventually happens, everyone owes me a beer! :)
In the Middle Ages, devout people crawled to the church on their knees to beg God to protect them. They died of the Plague anyway. If you challenge God to strike you dead, sometimes you die, sometimes you live for years. Same if you ask God to spare you. In fact, it's exactly like there was no God at all.
"God, if you are there, strike me dead!"
Ok, let's try this: "God, if you are there, let me live forever!"
Wanna bet I'm gonna die some day anyway?
Some "answer" to prayer: Asking for something that is going to happen anyway, whether one prays or not.
To be struck down right then and there, as the guy supposedly asked?
Rather more of a statistical improbability.
Yes, by communist partisans.
Edit: anyway, yes, (young) Mussolini did say that, since he started out as a progressive anti-monarchist socialist (and a pacifist who got arrested for trying to stop military supply trains for the 1911 war in Lybia). Also, when he was a young teacher, he was rebuked for failing to keep class discipline.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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