tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379287241318002122.post3161860759532785218..comments2024-01-28T08:54:32.914-06:00Comments on That's interesting...: GOP almightyBill Garthrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552459555883204060noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379287241318002122.post-18969302596936138162012-01-06T13:26:44.779-06:002012-01-06T13:26:44.779-06:00Yup. Praying began as a way to placate a god who w...Yup. Praying began as a way to placate a god who was immensely powerful, but otherwise rather human. Those gods didn't have your best interests at heart, so you had to keep them happy. (They were shallow enough to want people worshiping them.)<br /><br />Sometimes, you could trick them, but that rarely ended well. But you could persuade them to do what you wanted,... sometimes. (They were nothing if not fickle, and no matter what, you couldn't count on them. Pray all you like, and they still might crush you on an idle whim.)<br /><br />But it made sense to keep a god as happy as possible, just as it made sense to keep a powerful human - a king, for example - happy. Lesser men walked carefully around such powerful beings (even the imaginary ones).<br /><br />But these days, it makes no sense to try to persuade an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god to do something he wasn't planning to do in the first place. And why would such a god be so egotistical and so insecure as to want worship from lesser beings?<br /><br />Well, if believers were that rational, they wouldn't be believers. :)Bill Garthrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552459555883204060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379287241318002122.post-61447964300338002522012-01-05T12:32:46.299-06:002012-01-05T12:32:46.299-06:00"And when the evidence directly contradicts y..."And when the evidence directly contradicts your faith, well, "God works in mysterious ways." Yeah, it couldn't be that you're wrong, could it? It couldn't be that faith is a terrible way to determine the truth."<br /><br />Something to consider about that paragraph:<br /><br />My go-to political/social guru has always been George Carlin. Of his many takes on religion the one that comes to mind is "What about the Divine Plan?" Remember, we were always taught in church that God has a Divine Plan. <br /><br />Here's the deal: If He has a"Divine Plan." what's the point in praying? <br /><br />That's where the "God works in mysterious ways" and "It's God's will" thing comes in. "He's" going to do whatever "He" wants to anyway.<br /><br />Try that on one the members of "God's Only Party" and watch their heads explode.Jeffnoreply@blogger.com