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Post by shadrack on Sept 22, 2023 23:14:59 GMT
"God has a plan for you. He has a plan for everyone."It's a common platitude. We've all heard it. But I've often wondered why people find it comforting. Let's just say for the sake of argument there is a God and he has a plan for everyone. Who's to say it's a GOOD plan? Millions of people have lived miserable lives and died horrible deaths. If God has a plan for everyone, he had a plans for all of them, and those plans were horrific. So why do some people find the thought of God having a plan for them comforting?
Or, if they don't, why do people say it?
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Post by Isapop on Sept 22, 2023 23:55:38 GMT
Well, I went with T-Mobile.
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Post by Meseia on Sept 23, 2023 3:48:21 GMT
Because their failings are not their fault, if it was god's will all along.
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Post by general313 on Sept 25, 2023 0:20:55 GMT
The Church has the best liability waiver ever: you will be amply rewarded for your suffering after you die!
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Post by amyghost on Sept 25, 2023 1:10:00 GMT
I've never understood what precisely people find 'comforting' in the thought of Christianity, God, Jesus, or the rest of the whole arglebargle anyway. Frankly I find nothing particularly comforting in any of it, and find a fair amount of it actually pretty horrifying.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Sept 25, 2023 1:44:00 GMT
I've never understood what precisely people find 'comforting' in the thought of Christianity, God, Jesus, or the rest of the whole arglebargle anyway. Frankly I find nothing particularly comforting in any of it, and find a fair amount of it actually pretty horrifying. Many need something to hang onto and it is largely born out of their own fear and insecurities.
To believe in Christ the savior, I feel many think this will give them a free pass in case there is something out there after human death. They feel like it is a form of insurance cover. Of course this is an absurd way to look at it and even to live, but I can't see it as anything other than a cop-out and even an entitlement for something.
Christians never seem to address if someone acts noble and purposefully throughout their lives helping others and being a generally decent human being and then when they die, because they haven't accepted Christ as their savior, do they still go to hell? Yet someone who is an absolute prick and yet claims they are Christian and accept Christ the savior, do they then get to go to heaven?
Such an absurd religious belief.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Sept 25, 2023 1:48:10 GMT
Because their failings are not their fault, if it was god's will all along. Their failings are their doing, born out of their own delusion. It is sort of selfish too, to think that a belief is going to give them a free pass. Does that mean a Christian doesn't have to take accountability for their own actions then?
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