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If you don't need a mask, because God will protect you (Original Post) Peacetrain Apr 2021 OP
There you go thunking logically SheltieLover Apr 2021 #1
one wishes god would stop sending diseases to kill everybody he claims to love nt msongs Apr 2021 #2
There definitely needs to be more smiting. LakeArenal Apr 2021 #3
They attribute all bad things that come at them to satan. Blue_true Apr 2021 #17
either satan is more powerful than god or god is a sadist nt msongs Apr 2021 #18
Pretty much sums it up. Blue_true Apr 2021 #19
The only reason these same people wear seat belts is because Ferrets are Cool Apr 2021 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author birdographer Apr 2021 #6
Not 100% true Shermann Apr 2021 #11
This Ferrets are Cool Apr 2021 #13
My sister and bil never wore seatbelts until they got pulled over and fined for it. ShazzieB Apr 2021 #8
Here In Illinois... ProfessorGAC Apr 2021 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Ferrets are Cool Apr 2021 #5
Don't worry about God. Worry about that person who's had enough of your shit. 634-5789 Apr 2021 #7
Awesome! Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #9
The FSM says "Mask up". trof Apr 2021 #10
God sent the virus twodogsbarking Apr 2021 #12
This presupposes that the RW Christian NJ respond to logic. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #14
Very good question. nt Blue_true Apr 2021 #15
And if you picked the wrong deity to obey, that gun won't help you NotASurfer Apr 2021 #20

LakeArenal

(28,813 posts)
3. There definitely needs to be more smiting.
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 05:39 PM
Apr 2021

Couple folks turned to stone. Or salt.

A few bolts of lightening directed perfectly.

We had the plague. Time to be more direct.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
17. They attribute all bad things that come at them to satan.
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 08:59 PM
Apr 2021

Like god doesn’t let satan do those things, without even trying to intervene.

The belief in a meta-physical origin of good and evil is why I abandoned Christianity long ago ( that was the only organized religion that I knew of at that time, others are just as bad).

After seeing so-called people of faith doing awful shit, I abandoned organized religion and sought a true understanding of why we are here and on issues like good and evil. We create our own good or evil, those outcomes are functions of our hearts, in every decision that we make, we have a choice to do good or evil. There is no meta-physical origin, that just exists in some people’s heads.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
19. Pretty much sums it up.
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 09:44 PM
Apr 2021

Why would a caring god allow often vile and brutal stuff to happen to innocent people?

Ferrets are Cool

(21,105 posts)
4. The only reason these same people wear seat belts is because
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 05:43 PM
Apr 2021

they get fined if they don't. Some still don't, of course.

Just imagine if the current repuq party were asked to vote for a seatbelt law NOW. OMG, the horror.

Response to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #4)

Shermann

(7,411 posts)
11. Not 100% true
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 07:48 PM
Apr 2021

The cleanup can tie up and consume precious resources: ambulances, surgeons, equipment, blood, donor organs, etc.

ShazzieB

(16,357 posts)
8. My sister and bil never wore seatbelts until they got pulled over and fined for it.
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 06:53 PM
Apr 2021

Of course, they thought the whole thing was terribly unfair.

In this state, we have a slogan: "Click it or ticket." Seatbelts have been required by law for years, but you didn't get ticketed just for that. Not unless you were pulled over for something else and caught beltless. Then they changed the law so that the cops can pull you over and write you a ticket just for not wearing your seatbelt. And by golly, it works.

ProfessorGAC

(64,988 posts)
16. Here In Illinois...
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 08:48 PM
Apr 2021

...the law went into effect middle of 1985.
They started enforcing immediately. More people were pulled over (in municipalities, not expressways) for that than speeding & rolling stops combined.
There was controversy around 30 years ago that cops were using it as an excuse to pull over minorities for no other reason. "Suspicion" of not wearing a seatbelt.
Every 5 years or so, they hammer PSAs and highway signs with the "Click it..." message.
I personally know nobody who doesn't wear the belt. After 36 years, I guess that's to be expected.

Response to Peacetrain (Original post)

NotASurfer

(2,149 posts)
20. And if you picked the wrong deity to obey, that gun won't help you
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 11:29 PM
Apr 2021

Probably just jam when the post-apocalyptic hordes of Satanic zombies shamble toward you.

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