Explain this church billboard saying to me...

[LostInAnomie]

... cause I just don't get it.

Everything has purpose, not reason.
Ask God.


????

[warrens]

1. Faith is not built on logic

Otherwise, what kind of fucking god would allow Rwanda or Iraq or the tsunami. It's probably a reference to the latter.

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I have no idea!

I've been trying to understand religious people for years......

[Skittles]

3. it's faith bullshit

not explainable

[Deja Q]

4. How come 'faith is in the word, and not in the deed' these days?

'supposed to be the other way around, isn't it? :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. You are supposed to go inside

that church and ask them to explain it to you :)

[progressoid]

6. I think it's kinda funny

that, "not reason" would be used. Since reason is not something I associate with churches anyway.

In fact it was Martin Luther that said, "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the Divine Word...."

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Fundies think God hates reason

[Orsino]

8. "Get on your knees and stop asking stupid questions." n/t

[ladjf]

9. I can explain it exactly. It is the basic psychiatric ploy used by

clerics to teach people to disable their normal objective cognitive capabilities and replace them by an unquestioning compliance to whatever the clerics say is true. Unless they can paralyze the minds of their victims, their nonsense is totally ineffective.

[Merlot]

15. Wow. What a statement. I think you've summed it up.

[Erika]

10. Look at

the Biblical account of the Mustard Seed.

[Erika]

11. The Mustard Seed

http://www.christweb.com/mustardseed/

[NightTrain]

12. I think Archie Bunker put it best....

"It don't have to make sense; it's faith, faith! Faith is when you believe something that nobody in his right mind would ever believe."

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. lol...

I love Archie, it's one of my all time favorite TV shows

[Merlot]

14. They've been replaying "All In the Family" on sundays

on CBS. It's so brilliant. Gawd, nothing has changed! These people could so easily be contemporary (except for the occasional hippie characters).

[Floogeldy]

16. Its pretty simple

Unreasonable things can happen, and things can happen for apparently no reason. However, the believer believes that the event has a purpose in his or her life, however unreasonable or however perceived has having no reason or serving no purpose.

That's it.

[ikojo]

17. Abandon thought and logic

and pursue faith only.

[RevCheesehead]

18. It means not everything has reason, but it does have purpose.

I'm not sure I totally agree with it, but I do see a lot of unreasonable things. It's the purpose that I question.

[saltpoint]

19. The money spent renting that billboard to post such --

-- manipulative crap would have been better spent as a donation to recent tsunami victims, Amnesty International, or another cause that would actually assist human beings.

The message itself is snake oil.