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#8883
Darth Wang
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. It's sad, though.
1/4/2006 8:57:21 PM
#8898
King Spirula
The mine disaster was awful, but doesn't this person realize what this means if the miners die?
1/4/2006 9:30:51 PM
#8900
Just Rick
Or the fact that hazerdous gasses are one of the main reasons that are holding back rescue efforts. If people started talking about seeing angels I'd be thinking the gasses got to them.
Instead, I think people are gullible to that which they don't understand. That is why so many people thought that bright daytime Venus was god's spaceship recently, or Unusually southern \"northern lights\" where marks of god, or near death experiences are due to an oxygen starved brain.
If there were a god and he was the slight bit interested in my belief of him then he would make it plain to me personally, not thru the antics of all the crazy people around me seeing the Virgin mary in a cheese sandwich.
1/4/2006 9:38:54 PM
#8902
ryan
Some one brought that up on CF. They were saying they miners being saved was a miracle from God. A poster asked if the fact that they died meant it was a curse from God. Nope its not.
Miners Live= God's responsible
Miners Die= God isn't responsible
1/4/2006 9:42:05 PM
#8921
ryan
From later in the thread:
I just had a thought, and please correct me if I am way off. And this concept is incredibley cruel if true. We all know how the Media seems to dismiss Christianity, well they all new these people where praising the Lord and praying for the best for the miners. They where in a church, praying, seeking the Lord, and the news came in.....\"They are alive\". They were praising the Lord and saying what an incredible miracle this was...only to come back and say \"THey are all gone\" . To me this seems like a media attack on Christianity. Maybe I am 100% wrong, but it is a possiblility. My heart and prayers go out to all that have suffered this horrific loss.- kvat3r
1/4/2006 10:36:07 PM
#8925
David D.G.
<< I just had a thought, and please correct me if I am way off. And this concept is incredibley cruel if true. We all know how the Media seems to dismiss Christianity, well they all new these people where praising the Lord and praying for the best for the miners. They where in a church, praying, seeking the Lord, and the news came in.....\"They are alive\". They were praising the Lord and saying what an incredible miracle this was...only to come back and say \"THey are all gone\" . To me this seems like a media attack on Christianity. Maybe I am 100% wrong, but it is a possiblility. My heart and prayers go out to all that have suffered this horrific loss.- kvat3r >>
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Wow. How paranoid can you get?
~David D.G.
1/4/2006 11:18:08 PM
#8927
Crosis
<<< To me this seems like a media attack on Christianity. Maybe I am 100% wrong >>>
\"Maybe\"?
What apparently happened is that someone yelled \"We found them!\" and the newspapers (needing to rush to beat deadline) and networks (hoping to beat each other to the punch, accuracy be damned) assumed that meant they were found alive.
1/4/2006 11:27:14 PM
#8969
Jeramyu
Wow. So the only reason he wants these people to live is to use them for his religious advocations. What a nasty prick.
1/5/2006 1:44:21 AM
#9016
Questioning
How Fuckin' weak is THAT!!!!!
You need \"Proof\" in order to have faith?!?!?!?
-My Two Bits
1/5/2006 2:24:56 PM
#9059
Rime
Questioning: One of the big lynchpins in the downfall of modern Christianity. Proof almost always invalidates faith.
1/5/2006 5:08:06 PM
#9061
Rime
Then again, I know enough of the less loopy type to appreciate a strong belief. Has to be tempered with humility, though. It's in desparately short supply these days, it seems.
1/5/2006 5:10:06 PM
#9135
Questioning
to Rime...
\"That Mary Had a Child without knowing a Man's touch is a Leap of Faith.That she and Joseph never got it on is just plain stupid\"
-Rufus, 13th Apostle, \"Dogma\"
I learned more about God and Faith from this Movie than anything else in my 25 years of life.
-My Two Bits
1/6/2006 2:08:11 PM
#9357
Ragutis
The wife of the lone survivor has repeatedly said that her husband's survival is a \"miracle\" and spoken of how deep his faith was... so does this mean that GOD wanted the others dead, or did they just not believe enough to warrant survival? Perhaps their families didn't pray hard enough?
It was just a tragic accident due to unknown (as of yet) circumstances and thankfully at least one person survived (through another as yet unknown set of circumstances)
1/8/2006 1:02:09 AM
#9658
TDR
Questioning - seriously, man, get your hands on \"good omens\" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Seriously.
And Rime - am I the only one having a Douglas Adams moment - that just about wraps it up for god!
1/9/2006 9:28:33 PM
#10188
Questioning
-TDR
Terry Prachett's \"Discworld\" series is a hoot!
1/12/2006 2:33:07 PM
#10747
Onuris
Now this is a proper example of foot-in-mouth disease, see how the dumb ass's foot is lodged firmly in his cock sucking mouth
1/16/2006 2:47:11 AM
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