I write this as a message to believers and unbelievers alike. God has been trying to get our attention for centuries. His efforts just keep getting bigger and bigger. Do we really want to think about what He will send our way next? To the believers, I challenge you to ramp up YOUR witness for Jesus, to show unbelievers the love that Jesus offers us and to help them understand why God is taking such measures to wake up people to His truth. The Good News of Jesus is something each of us should want to share with as many as we possibly can.
To the unbelievers, I challenge you to think. Put science aside and think from your hearts. If you think there is a God out there who created this world we live in, would it not follow that He would want our love and devotion? And that He might be taking final steps to get us to choose Him over selfish pleasures and life in THIS world so that we may have an eternity of joy, peace and love?
Katrina: a sign? No, I think a warning. [Emphasis added]
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Well, the way I see it ... if he wants our love and devotion, mass murder is a hell of a way to inspire it.
Ms. Miller doesn't quite realize that if god had any brains, he'd make warnings that:
Irony meter reached full scale and started vibrating rather violently when I read this one. I shut it off, but I think it might be permanently damaged.
STFU you evil little person. Katrina caused the population of my town to grow by about forty per cent. I taught a refugee stuednt who had to share the apartment he was lucky enough to find with 20 other people. We put so much effort into helping refugees that our own less fortunate citizenry went without charity of any kind for awhile. If your god did all that to warn you, then your god can go fuck his unspeakably cruel ass sideways.
Natural disasters are, um, you know, natural. Not caused by the Invisible Sky Father or any other made up monster.
Even putting science aside, and looking at things from a more emotional perspective (from my heart, as you asked), I can't buy it.
"To the unbelievers, I challenge you to think. Put science aside and think from your hearts."
Well, I can't think from my heart since the thinking pointer to there has been re-mapped.
It now redirects to the emotion center of my brain.
So, I'm thinking from my heart...
Results:
I need a girlfriend.
Conclusion: Still no god.
or...we could try to fill THIS world with all that joy, peace and love.
no, now i'm just being silly :P
"If you think there is a God out there who created this world we live in, would it not follow that He would want our love and devotion?"
In a word, no. Why would an infinite, omnipotent god want anything from something else? Until you can explain that, there is no need for anyone to waste time on the subject.
I challenge YOU to think about that Ms. Miller.
Look, if god wants my attention, he can facebook me like everyone else. Then after he's answered a few questions, we talk beliefs.
God got Adam and Eve's attention, didn't he, and Abraham's and Moses' and Noah's and Mohammed's and Mary's and Jesus'.
He sought attention 3-4 thousand years ago, and the Torah was written. He sought attention again 2000 years ago, and the Bible was written. He tried again 1600 years ago, and the Quran was written. Since then He's been pretty quiet. I'd rather say his efforts are getting smaller...
It's not He that is sending stuff; it's rather we humans doing our very best to destroy the planet that he (supposedly) created for us and told us to take good care of.
Science is what happens when you think, silly-nilly. The heart is a muscle and can't think.
If you think there is a God out there who created this world we live in, would it not follow that He would want our love and devotion?
Again, I think that He (if he exists) would want us to TAKE CARE OF THE WORLD HE CREATED FOR US!
If Katrina, and the series of hurricanes he sent the last hurricane season are warnings, then His efforts aren't getting bigger, but more ungainly and with poorer aim. More like a troll than an omniscient deity.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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