Talk Cancer

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There remains very little time.  Suck it up and get moving.  Millions are going to hell.  We must reach as many as possible..

If your God really wants to reach me, why does he only send blithering idiots to speak for him? Seriously, do you really think your combination of ignorance, arrogance, and bigotry is going to convert anyone? If there is a God, he’s weeping at the thought that you’re representing him. Shame on you.

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There remains very little time.  Suck it up and get moving.  Millions are going to hell.  We must reach as many as possible.. If your God really wants to reach me, why does he only send blithering idiots to speak for him?

Just a tangental thought. One of my favourite movie lines concerning religion "Satan’s greatest trick was convincing people he does not exist." And what better way to convince people that God does not exist could Satan do than to send such speakers out claiming to be from God? Seriously, do you really think your combination of ignorance, arrogance, and bigotry is going to convert anyone? If there is a God, he’s weeping at the thought that you’re representing him. Shame on you.

As I have mentioned before, I have my belief system. When I note that a messages is crossposted to alt.atheism I try to refrain from saying that much about it.  It is just a matter of being polite. ANothing I am going to say is going to convince anyone in said ng BI am assuming that a large number of people in said ng actually do have other things to do with their lives so why waste their time? C If one is polite then others are more prone to be polite..which opens the way to dialog?  And I have known atheists who, with a shade of irony, acted much closer to the concept of the Christian ideal than many Christians. DThe last I checked I was an Irish-Seneca Canadian and not a judgemental Deity. So I may be curious about why people do things but in the end it is more important to me as to what they do. dnp bardi

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Why does god need short fat control freaks to do his work for him? He stated that the believers are the ones to preach to the ones that don’t know his Word. God would only have to reveal himself to me once, and I would be his adoring follower for life. He is not going to show his face to you, if you are talking about something like this, He is spirit.

        First of all, "reval himself" does not necessarily mean showing his face. He’s supposedly appeared as a burning bush, a booming, thundering cloud, and a burrito in Mexico.         In all seriousness, he could simply contact the OP in a way that is undisputable. But all of my prayers have gone unanswered. So where is your supporting proof for all of this pie in the sky bs? If you really are interested in knowing Him, and you pray from your heart (the profound part of your mind, its center), your prayers wont be unanswered, I assure you that. You just need to be humble when you pray to Him, don’t compel Him to do something or so, on the contrary, be respectful, remember to who you are talking to.

        So, let me get this straight. In order to be given "proof" that God exists, we must first agree that God exists?         -n

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Why does god need short fat control freaks to do his work for him? He stated that the believers are the ones to preach to the ones that don’t know his Word. God would only have to reveal himself to me once, and I would be his adoring follower for life. He is not going to show his face to you, if you are talking about something like this, He is spirit. But isn’t the Christian version of God supposed to have magic powers?  I am sure he could find some way to alter the fact that the evidence for  his existence is exactly the same as anything else that doesn’t exist. There is no evidence that any gods exist outside the imaginations of those who feel the need for believing such a things. But all of my prayers have gone unanswered. So where is your supporting proof for all of this pie in the sky bs? If you really are interested in knowing Him, and you pray from your heart (the profound part of your mind, its center), your prayers wont be unanswered, I assure you that. You just need to be humble when you pray to Him, don’t compel Him to do something or so, on the contrary, be respectful, remember to who you are talking to. If you don’t want to do that, OK, no problem, but then don’t say that He doesn’t answer. Keep these alternatives in mind the next time you have been fooled into believing some sort of god is answering your prayers.

I have this terribly small,insignificant but still nagging problem. Let us assume for a moment that God exists. Humour me and accept it just for the sake of argument. In that case the next logical question is ..why do we exist? Is it just to worship God? Quite frankly, that does not sound very God-like to me. And He..or She..there really is no deity pronoun.. has given us free will. And yet people are constantly asking God to take that gift back. Confuses me it does. dnp bardi

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Why does god need short fat control freaks to do his work for him? He stated that the believers are the ones to preach to the ones that don’t know his Word. God would only have to reveal himself to me once, and I would be his adoring follower for life. He is not going to show his face to you, if you are talking about something like this, He is spirit.

But isn’t the Christian version of God supposed to have magic powers?  I am sure he could find some way to alter the fact that the evidence for  his existence is exactly the same as anything else that doesn’t exist. There is no evidence that any gods exist outside the imaginations of those who feel the need for believing such a things. But all of my prayers have gone unanswered. So where is your supporting proof for all of this pie in the sky bs? If you really are interested in knowing Him, and you pray from your heart (the profound part of your mind, its center), your prayers wont be unanswered, I assure you that. You just need to be humble when you pray to Him, don’t compel Him to do something or so, on the contrary, be respectful, remember to who you are talking to. If you don’t want to do that, OK, no problem, but then don’t say that He doesn’t answer.

Keep these alternatives in mind the next time you have been fooled into believing some sort of god is answering your prayers. Kookoo the Tree God The Editor Canton Daily Ledger 53 West Elm Street Canton, IL 61520 Sir/Madam: In a recent letter to the editor, Mahala Lafferty offered a personal experience she had recently had as evidence that her god answers prayers.  After relating a close call her son had had while hauling a tractor on I-474, she concluded that a prayer she had said had saved him from dying in a horrible accident.  She asked if anyone could now question that her god answers prayers. I regret to say that I do have to question that her prayers had anything to do with her son’s narrow escape, because she gave no indication that she had prayed to Kookoo the tree god, who lives in a small grove of trees behind my house.  If her prayers were not directed to Kookoo, then she did not pray to the one and only true god, so there is no way that her prayers could have been heard. Kookoo will hear only the prayers of those who believe in him. I have kept Kookoo’s existence a secret for a long time, but Mrs. Lafferty’s letter has finally given me the courage to speak out and reveal him to the world.  I, of course, have known of Kookoo’s existence for a long time.  I have had a personal experience with Kookoo and have accepted him as my personal god, and nobody can convince me that I have not experienced what I know that I did experience.  Many times I have prayed to Kookoo, and he has heard my prayers and answered them.  I often talk to Kookoo, and he talks to me.  How can I deny that I have walked and talked with Kookoo when I know that I have? Whenever I go on a trip, I ask for Kookoo’s protection, and he has always answered my prayers. Even though I have made several airline trips, some of them international flights, none of the airplanes I have flown on ever crashed.  In view of such evidence as this, who can deny that Kookoo has not watched over me and answered my prayers? On a motor trip once, a front tire blew out on my car when I was traveling 70 miles per hour.  (Yes, I was fudging a little bit on the speed limit.)  The moment I realized what had happened, I uttered a quick prayer to Kookoo, and soon I had the car under control and was able to bring it to a safe stop on the shoulder.  I shudder to think of what would have happened to me if Kookoo had not heard my prayer. To be honest, I must admit that Kookoo has not always given me the things I have prayed for, but I understand why.  It wasn’t that Kookoo didn’t hear and answer my prayers; it was simply that Kookoo’s answer was no on those occasions.  His ways are higher than my ways, so he understands what is best for me.  I always respect the wisdom of his decisions even when I don’t get the things I pray for.  I know that someday I will understand why Kookoo has often had to tell me no when I prayed. The good news for everyone is that Kookoo lives and abides everywhere that trees grow.  If you have a tree in your yard, you can be assured that Kookoo is there.  If you will believe in Kookoo and pray to him in your time of need, you too can know the great joy of a personal experience with Kookoo.  I urge everyone to pray to Kookoo in his/her hour of need.  There is no joy comparable to the joy of knowing Kookoo the tree god as your personal god. –Farrell Till

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