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⌈ Secret Post #3344 ⌋

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[The Vision/Wanda Maximoff (Marvel's The Avengers)]

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[New Tricks]

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[One Punch Man]

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[Karen Page, Daredevil (Netflix)]

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[Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything]

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[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D]

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[Good Omens]

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[J.K. Rowling]

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[Ace Attorney 6]

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(Borderlands, Dameon Clarke)

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Regardless of what your religious beliefs are, I think it's arrogant and self-centered to believe God personally intervened to help you. Why would your life, your job, your college degree, or your fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies matter more than all the people who weren't helped?

Edited 2016-03-01 03:05 (UTC)

Seriously?

No one gets to have comfort in their religion helping because other people have it worse?

What bullshit.

It's not about comfort, it's about perspective. God may care about the fall of the smallest sparrow, but he doesn't seem to intervene in it. To say that God helped you is to imply that your success was of such great importance that God needed to take a hand in it, and that just seems narcissistic to me.

I like to think He also helps other people, maybe not in the same exact way, but in ways appropriate to them.

A lot of things people believe God helped them with, from an outsider perspective someone would be able to say "Well ou could do that on your own anyway!" or "It would have happened like that anyway". It doesn't matter if that is so, it makes the person who prayed beforehand feel better to think they had divine help.

"I like to think He also helps other people, maybe not in the same exact way, but in ways appropriate to them. "

I understand why religious people find this a comforting thought, but you know, the appropriate way to help my grandma when she was dying of kidney failure would've been to cure her. Not to prolong her death so that she spent the last few years of her life wasted and sick and an unrecognizable sack of skin and bones who could barely walk.

So I find any sentiment along the lines of "God works in mysterious ways!" or "Maybe God has answered your prayers and you just don't realize it!" horribly obscene.

What a comfort to children in war torn countries to know that god is helping them in "ways appropriate to them."

Right? Too bad that the "appropriate" way is often to let them die horribly, or to allow their parents to be killed, leaving them orphaned and homeless. Guess they just didn't pray hard enough.

"Thanks, God, for helping me find my car keys. Wow, it really sucks about all those kids dying of cancer, huh?"

I for one would find it refreshing if people admitted that they were "taking comfort" in the idea that their god would personally intervene and help them win a football game, but at the same time, let kids die of cancer. If I genuinely believed that were possible or happening, I'd be terrified about worshipping such a cruel deity.

I agree. granted, I don't believe in God, but it fucking cracks me up when NFL players thank god for intervening to help them win a fucking football game or such. Like seriously, if I believed in a god I'd actually be offended that the deity you worship is one that cares more about football than famine.

I think that depends on what sort of a god you imagine. Like, if god is more like a sort of symmetrical cluster of meaningful coinceidences and less of a person, there would be no real reasons involved, only a sort of carmic order. or if you imagine god as literally on a "higher plain" as in another dimension, then they could well be playing us all like a video game, and arbitrarily choose certain heroes.

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