I can imagine that there are people who go though a period of time in their life where they may question God. But I can not image anyone living their whole life without God being a part of it.
Even the grand martial Dawkins himself opens his presentation with an announcement that God is a "Delusion". Then he steadys himself for the inevitable lightening bolt that is going to come flashing out of the sky. But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book.
Dawkins know what he can get away with and what he can not get away with. Just like the ocean has a limit, so humans have their limits and they have a boundry in what God will allow them to do.
Jeremiah 5:22 niv
The main thing I see is that people die a early death when they set a bad example for others. Mick Jagger seems to go on forever simply because he admits there is no satisfaction in what he is doing. Yet people like Elvis, james dean, marilyn monroe, janis joplin, jimmy hendrix and many more died a early death because of the bad example they were showing others.
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Really? You doubt that anyone could have lived totally without God? Because there are people who have done it.
I can imagine that there are people who go though a period of time in their life where they may question God. But I can not image anyone living their whole life without God being a part of it. Even the grand martial Dawkins himself opens his presentation with an announcement that God is a "Delusion". Then he steadys himself for the inevitable lightening bolt that is going to come flashing out of the sky. But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book.
Then I guess it's not "inevitable," huh. Really shot yourself in the foot with that one, didn't ya?
Dawkins know what he can get away with and what he can not get away with. Just like the ocean has a limit, so humans have their limits and they have a boundry in what God will allow them to do.
Yes, well, as soon as there's some retribution from Gawd for anything anyone has done, we'll know what our "boundaries" are, won't we?
Jeremiah 5:22 niv
You're quoting the NIV??? Bad fundie! Bad!
Should you not fear me?" declares the Lord.
"Should you not tremble in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
That's fantastic. You're quoting me some bad fictional poetry, and expecting it to have some kind of logical legitimacy.
The main thing I see is that people die a early death when they set a bad example for others.
Okay, completely out from left field, but so what?
Mick Jagger seems to go on forever simply because he admits there is no satisfaction in what he is doing.
Actually, that's not what the song is about at all, and I think Mick Jagger gets great satisfaction from what he does.
Yet people like Elvis, james dean, marilyn monroe, janis joplin, jimmy hendrix and many more died a early death because of the bad example they were showing others.
So, which is it? Satisfaction or setting a bad example?
Your ridiculous logic is all over the board here.
Walnut,
When I read this for the first time, I thought it wouldn't get any better than "Grand Martial Dawkins." But then he goes on a tangent with Mick, Elivs, and "jimmy" (blasphemy!), and I knew it was gold.
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
"I can imagine that there are people who go though a period of time in their life where they may question God. But I can not image anyone living their whole life without God being a part of it."Well then, you're not very bright or imaginative, are you?
"Even the grand martial Dawkins himself opens his presentation with an announcement that God is a "Delusion"."
Martial?
"Then he steadys himself for the inevitable lightening bolt that is going to come flashing out of the sky. But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book."
If the lightning bolt was "inevitable," how is it that "nothing happens?"
"Dawkins know what he can get away with and what he can not get away with. Just like the ocean has a limit, so humans have their limits and they have a boundry in what God will allow them to do."
Or, more likely, one can do anything and everything yet suffer no consequences from God because God does not exist.
"Jeremiah 5:22 niv
Should you not fear me?" declares the Lord.
"Should you not tremble in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
they may roar, but they cannot cross it."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. God is love, God is all good and loving, yet everyone should fear him. Johnny, can you tell me what's wrong with this idea?
"The main thing I see is that people die a early death when they set a bad example for others. Mick Jagger seems to go on forever simply because he admits there is no satisfaction in what he is doing."
Mick survives only because of a song title? Who da thunk it?
"Yet people like Elvis, james dean, marilyn monroe, janis joplin, jimmy hendrix and many more died a early death because of the bad example they were showing others."
I guess all those Xian children who have died were killed by God because they were setting a bad example?
May I also point out that Keith Richards is still alive, yet both he and Mick are well known for not settings good examples.
Hadanelith
That verse is retarded, because the sea makes beaches, and beaches are hardly everlasting. And there ARE such things as floods, and tsunamis. You'd think God would know that before telling people to write it.
And yet, sadistic serial killers are allowed to continue murdering, as opposed to being struck down, because God doesn't think that's a bad enough example of humanity.
@JohnR7
Yet people like Elvis, james dean, marilyn monroe, janis joplin, jimmy hendrix and many more
First off, don't you EVER disrespect the great name of Jimi Marshall Hendrix by spelling it in small letters and misspelling it. You should be drawn and quartered for that.
Let´s look carefully. So, Mick Jagger, if he contradicts your crap, is an exception because he has a song that says symbollically I got no satisfaction?, let´s say that obviously you´re unable to differentiate fact from fiction. Let´s see other "examples". Stalin, Pinochet and Pol Pot, die in their nineties. People in the death row can be up to sisxty. Marquis of Sade almost seventy............man, don´t pick and choose. And besides, what´s wrong with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell?
"Even the grand martial Dawkins himself opens his presentation with an announcement that God is a "Delusion". Then he steadys himself for the inevitable lightening bolt that is going to come flashing out of the sky. But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book." Missing the Point Entirely Award
JohnR7 -- do you EVER read Scripture in the context of the period, time, culture, politics and religion of the time in which it was written?
Sounds like JohnR has been listening to the Westboro Baptist Church. They said God killed all those little Amish girls as punishment for living in a country that doesn't let fundies kill gays. God must have missed Aleister Crowley, who was once dubbed the "wickedest man in the world", though: he lived to 72.
Care to explain what bad example my childhood friend set that merited dying of leukemia at 14 years old? What could he have possibly done to deserve that? Marilyn Monroe died from an OD, and James Dean died in a street race. Both were tragic and both died too young, but I doubt God had anything to do with it.
Wzll, I suppose you heard the theories about Marilyn's OD not exactly being an accident. But be it an accident, sucide or murder, it was indeed tragic and prematurate.
So according to you, Mick Jagger gets to live, despite being a very bad example, just because he's not enjoying what he's doing. Does that mean I can live peacefully as an atheist into my nineties as long as I don't enjoy my life?
"Even the grand martial Dawkins himself opens his presentation with an announcement that God is a "Delusion". Then he steadys himself for the inevitable lightening bolt that is going to come flashing out of the sky. But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book."
Sah-WING and a miss.
God must have missed Aleister Crowley, who was once dubbed the "wickedest man in the world", though: he lived to 72.
Ah, but now Crowley has moved on to his greater reward of being eternally flayed by the wit of Rabelais, against which he so gravely offended.
“I can imagine that there are people who go though a period of time in their life where they may question God. But I can not image anyone living their whole life without God being a part of it.”
Yuo ever doubt Zeus, John?
“But when nothing happens, then he breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with trying to promote his book.”
“… and they have a boundry in what God will allow them to do.”
“The main thing I see is that people die a early death when they set a bad example for others.”
Confused?
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