God didn't create the viruses. Man did. God allowed it because it has increased many people's strength and faith through troubled times. Satan is out to destroy though... He wants people to get sick... Sometimes I think depression is a deadly virus. It gets so bad you want to kill yourself because you don't feel like you are worth anything...
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Gah! You idiot!
Seriously, WTF? Viruses have a) been around since before humans existed and b) been around causing illnesses in humans since long before we knew what caused those illnesses (or any, for that matter). There is simply no way man could have created viruses.
And depression is not a virus. It is a mental illness; that is, it's caused by neurochemical fuckups, not by pathogens.
Fundies are so self-centered. They never stop to consider things like viruses that were problems in the past but not now, or viruses that prey on obscure sea bacteria or whatever.
Having said that, if they did know anything more about science they might argue that God created viruses as a tool for science (since some are frequently used as vectors etc) and it was because of the Fall that they started "eating people" or something.
So, you're saying that the Bible is lying when it says God created everything, eh?
God the omnipotent and omni-benevolent couldn't come up with a better way to increase people's strength and faith than sickness. You contend that Satan wants people to be sick. Satan and God have identical goals?
Yes, depression is a very serious problem. I know. I have severe clinical depression. There are good treatments available from medical professionals. Don't rely on religious delusion to pull you through.
Unless you're talking about computer viruses with your first statement, you should get the fuck off the net!
Guys:
It gets so bad you want to kill yourself because you don't feel like you are worth anything...
Be careful with any shit flinging, this sounds like one of those [God=crutch=only leg I'm standing on] people!!
God didn't create the viruses. Man did.
Right, because we all know that everything on the planet was created either by us or by a being which considers us to be the most important thing in the universe.
Hey Julian, I think your'e right, but I never liked the God=crutch analogy. I have seen fundies use it to their own benefit. (Not criticizing you, just society). I think a better analogy would be God=chainball attached to ankle. They would have a much harder time using that in their favor.
Oh, come on. Everyone knows viruses were originally nanites designed by Xenu to kill infections, but then they got put into the . . . volcanoes, and . . . stuff.
Mad dog - it's like the elephant with the rope! A powerful elephant is led around with a rope it could easily break. When it was little, it was chained up with a chain it couldn't break, and it is conditioned to believe it cannot break it's tether, so it doesn't try. (Works really well till someone puts a firecracker up it's arse).
Some people use God as a crutch because they are incapable of believing they can stand on their own two feet. Others like to use God as a crutch to smack other people over the head with it. [granny with an umbrella] Both are mental cripples! [not granny, she at least has a real umbrella]
Christianity almost drove me to suicide in high school because of the conservative bigotry, oppressing nature and the feeling that they drove into me that everything I did was coming short for their Gawd and that I needed to work better and harder or go to hell.
When I finally broke down and told them how I felt from all of it, thy said to read the book of Job to feel better. Yeah, hearing about a guy who lost everything because Gawd gambled with the devil (I thought gambling and testing Gawd were sins) makes you feel real good.
Confused?
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