[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'N')othing wrong with prayer, as long as the one offering prayer is content that the answer may be "no". Its when people test God with prayer, that's a problem. I prayed for X, and you didn't give me X! WAH! That's just wrong.

[ColossalContrarian]

Tim Tebow is a good guy and an inspiration to many. He needs to work on his throwing skills but hey... I see Cid wants to beat up on him because he will probably eventually become one of the 1%.

[Lore]

An appeal to divine intervention is just a desperate attempt to control and make sence out of life's random circumstances.

[dinopello]

Tebow-mania reached fever pitch after they beat the steelers.

I just heard Bob Jones tell Candy Crowley that policies weren't the issue driving the economy. It was that the US had turned it's back on God. So God had to put the whammy on the economy.

[Fishman]

Cid, this is a new low even for you. A football player who exibits his faith, who if were exibiting muslim faith you would be ranting for, loses a game and you rant about other people of faith and politics. So lets flip this on you. If one believes in God then God must TRUELY hate Obama and the Progressives like yourself. Your greatest hope of generations has been a complete failure. Even Obama grumbles about the tsunami crushing Japan and twarting his economic recovery. If God were picking sides, from a libs point of view, you might want to crawl under a rock.

For clarity Cid, if there is no God, your political view is just a failure, if there is a God, he doesn't seem to like it.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'T')ebow-mania reached fever pitch after they beat the steelers.

I just heard Bob Jones tell Candy Crowley that policies weren't the issue driving the economy. It was that the US had turned it's back on God. So God had to put the whammy on the economy.

[SilentRunning]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'F')unny how when something goes well (i.e someone recovers from a disease contrary to doctors' opinions) then "It's a Miracle". But when a tragedy occurs (someone dies of aggressive cancer at an early age) that's "God's will", and it's "not for us to question".

Kind of selective and self-serving thinking, dontcha think?

Religion is by far not the only place we see emotional behavior causing all kinds of problems, but it drives me crazy, as religion's purpose is supposedly to HELP people.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'A')n appeal to divine intervention is just a desperate attempt to control and make sence out of life's random circumstances.

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'G')od asks Aaron Rodgers: "What do you believe?" Rodgers says, "I believe in hard work, and in staying true to family and friends.” God can't help but see the goodness of Rodgers and offers him a seat to his left.

Then God turns to Tim Tebow and says, "What do you believe?" Tebow says, "I believe in your total goodness, love and generosity and that you have given all to mankind.” God is greatly moved by Tebow’s eloquence, and offers him a seat to his right.

Finally, God turns to Tom Brady: "And you, Tom, what do you believe?" Tom replies, "I believe you're in my seat."

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')
Sorry, your statement is false.....


We need to Summon the Spirits...

Instead of

Casting them away.

[vision-master]

FYI: those messages came from outside myself, from a higher power - enjoy...

I have been writting them down......

How about this one.

Deeper Truths

Are

Met With Many Swords

vm

[Lore]

I remember those voices outside myself from a higher power. I believe it was my mother yelling; "get up, you lazy bum, it's time for school!"

[vision-master]

lol - but I'm dead serious. I must have been a Shaman in a former life.

[ColossalContrarian]

Funny stuff if you haven't seen them already

Jimmy Fallon skit-> http://www.hulu.com/watch/318731/late-n ... on-tebowie

SNL skit -> http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... ow/1374394

Take a look if you haven't seen them already...

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'W')ell said and too true Cloudy. I did a bunch of palliative care work after my dad passed and it is extremely rare for an atheist to hold out to death.

[lper100km]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.').... people of faith are holding out, wilfully suppressing their faculties of reason and rationality.

[SeaGypsy]

Too much rationality leads to depression and or suicide. I'm for rationality on my terms and spirituality on my terms. I guess that makes me an egoist.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', 'S')ounds a bit like that old chestnut "no atheists in a foxhole". Many an atheist combatant has put the lie to that one. I'm guessing that if an 'atheist' suddenly starts praying on his deathbed, he wasn't ever an atheist at all.

[Cloud9]

That's why they don't surrender and get eaten. That is precisely why faith is a survival instinct. The Jim Joneses of the world are a dead end street. The Brigham Youngs of the world are a whole different matter. Look at the social utopias of the 19th century those that were not based on faith fell apart. The ones based on faith lasted much longer. Some of them moved from cult status to major branches of faith.

[FoolYap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'I') really think that aethiests are very rare.