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SandyBouattick t1_jbyyojl wrote

Reply to comment by bkrluffy in [Image] Everything is working in divine right order.. by JettMe_Red

I can't stand how bad things aren't caused by divine power, but good things always are. All the people pulling survivors out of the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey were praising God for each survivor, but nobody was asking why God allowed a million others to die horribly in terror.

Things do work out sometimes, and we need to try to keep our chins up and hope for and work toward better days. You don't need divine intervention to do those things.

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Aldurnamiyanrandvora t1_jbzlpm5 wrote

For some people it's a coping mechanism, and I understand and respect that. But as usual… it's the instance that their way of dealing with things must be spread and be the 'normal'. The insistence on letting their way of life become yours. The evangelicalism.

Which is such a shame, because I've seen people who struggle really hard find their greatest strength in religion. But the taste is kind of soured for the rest of us.

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aesu t1_jbzv05p wrote

Theres a reason people living basically anywhere but first world environments post penicillin,. Almost entirely believe ING of. The alternative, that everyone you love and work so hard to protect can just be extinguished, for all eternity, for absolutely no good reason, at any moment, is not really compatible with just going about your life. It's highly demotivating, at the least.

We can manage without God because we've built such a. Technologically advanced environment that we can generally expect for us and our children and loved ones to live to a heap to h old age.

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SandyBouattick t1_jc01tav wrote

Eh. The US is still very religious. Try running for president as an atheist.

I completely understand how it can be a coping mechanism, but that only works if you believe it. If you stop to think why God would allow millions to die horribly while saving a select few, or why he allows suffering at all, or how he could be omnipotent while we also have free will, or which God is the real God, etc., then believing in it enough to actually draw any peace from that belief is pretty tough.

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