Today a gunman killed at least 12 people and wounded 59 in a Colorado movie theatre. My wife watched news coverage of the disaster this evening. She told me that a man was interviewed who praised God for saving his life.
Maybe it was this guy, Zach Golditch, a football player in an adjoining theatre who was shot when a bullet went through a wall.
And then at 8:57 a.m., he tweeted, "Thank you God for the gift of life! i promise it will not go to waste."
Don't take this too personally, Zach, but I think you're an idiot. It's understandable that you're happy to be alive. Thanking God for keeping you alive when the Holy Fuck-Up in Heaven just caused a dozen people to die is absurd, though.
You can't have it both ways, Zach (or any religious believer).
If God is omnipotent, omniscient, and all that shit, this means he/she/it is in complete control of everything that happens in the cosmos. Mass murder? God is responsible.
But if God is a detached CEO who doesn't get involved in minor details of creation, like 12 people being killed in a movie theatre, then God is worse than useless. What's the point of a divine being who looks down from on high and allows all sorts of fuck-ups to happen?
When tragedies like the Colorado shooting happen, the ridiculousness of believing in a personal God becomes even more apparent. Invariably God is praised for saving the lives of some people. God never is cursed for killing those who perished.
Yet if God saves, God also kills.
This is the God of the Bible's Old Testament. It's a nasty, vengeful, all-too-human God. But at least the Old Testament God makes some sense. Like all of us, sometimes he gets destructively angry; and sometimes he gets all lovey-dovey.
The God of confused modern day Christian theologians, though, is unbelievable. When people do bad things, it's due to the free will God gave to us. However, when good things happen, God is responsible.
Such is the attitude of an Olympics distance runner who thinks God is his coach. Somehow he manages to believe that God is the reason for his successes, yet blameless for his failures.
Ryan Hall is the fastest American distance runner competing in the London Olympics and he says he owes it all to his omnipresent coach who has been there with him every step of the way.
“I’ll just be straight forward, my coach is God,” the 29-year-old Hall told CNN.
...For Hall, running is more about the experience of peace and joy he gets from training. At times he says he does feel down and in said in the past he blamed God for not doing his best in a race, but now he said that has changed.
“I don’t think God causes me to fail in races," he said.
Why not, Ryan?
Why do you limit God's ability to fuck you up, as well as pick you up? If you're going to believe in God, believe in a goddamn macho GOD who does whatever the hell he wants, bad, good, or indifferent, not a wimpy divinity who only involves himself in human affairs when things are all orderly and nice.
George Zimmerman says it was "God's plan" that he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
That's ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as believing that God only is reponsible for the good stuff that happens in life. At least Zimmerman has a consistent Old Testament view of God: someone who murders, rapes, and pillages, then flips into a loving, caring, nurturing father-figure.
I'd rather leave God out of the "why stuff happens" equation entirely.
Having faith in a God who fucks things up so often makes no sense to me. Us humans are perfectly capable of screwing things up on our own, no God required. And also... making things better. On our own.
No no, absolutely. It is Jesus himself who is the patron saint of Incels. I mean, did Jesus even have a girlfriend, did he even get laid once, the poor man? His celibacy is as great a sacrifice, if not greater, than his crucifixion. He sacrificed the urgency of his libido so that women everywhere would learn a lesson, and would henceforth smilingly spread their legs for men, and thus fulfill their primary purpose in life. And yet, despite that sacrifice, women, sinners one and all, refuse to lay down when men want them to. What more indication do you need that apocalypse is at hand? This time the neo-Noah won't save the women, only men. (Although ... never mind, let's not overthink this! Overthinking -- in fact, thinking at all -- isn't what we do. .......Hallelujah! God save men! God bless all Incels!)
Posted by: Appreciative Reader | April 01, 2021 at 11:15 PM
Hey Appreciative Reader, nice to see your comments again, I hope you and yours are keeping well :)
My only begotten son was a complex character who was varyingly interpreted, as this delightful commentator astutely observes:
https://atheistnbeliever.blogs.com/atheistnbeliever/2018/12/christ-the-master-attorney.html?cid=6a022ad3c659ec200b022ad3ac153b200d#comment-6a022ad3c659ec200b022ad3ac153b200d
As for all the all these other people complaining about Me on this blog, I'm taking notes.
Posted by: God | April 02, 2021 at 06:00 AM
All good, thanks. Although knock on wood, when one says that, one's atheism and would-be rationalism and general abhorrence of superstitions notwithstanding, in these times I mean to say!
Always a "delight", interacting with you! My good wishes, always.
Posted by: Appreciative Reader | April 02, 2021 at 07:47 AM
I coldn t find the link
but I said many times
and now more clear
THERE IS NO GOD
God is YOU, . . . yourself
He (YOU) found out the best way to generate Love
So you (S/HE) is dong it many times in many time_space_multiverses
doing the best possible with eternal existence ( Brian s word : EXISTENCE)
So people Scold your inner Self!
How it works with applying amnesia , I wrote many times but here is a copy:
🙏🌺🌈 🙏🌺🌈 Here is How it works :
What would an All Powerful Being, (God)
BEYOND TIME , Self Existing, Almighty
possessing everything , . . still need?
LOVE is the answer, one can never have enough of that.
So S/HE does anything imaginable & un-imaginable
and each resulting quantum or being will transform in LOVE
Via Karma(s) it may take long ( many many Big Bangs) or flashed ( in a nanosecond)
the result is fantastic
You ( Reader here ) are HIM / HER
Even if one Soul per Galaxy succeeds p. year ,.... this is a Giant Stream
and that's only for this little universe
of Love
Please ask the AI_20/800QUBIT IBM Quantum Computer - It will confirm.
Even a stone will transform in Love
There is just no other place to go!
Great concept for AI Devices !
🙏🌺🌈 🙏🌺🌈
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18b1Tp1NiVs
Posted by: 🙏🌺🌈 🙏🌺🌈 Capich now ?🙏🌺🌈 🙏🌺🌈 | April 02, 2021 at 09:46 AM
If God wasn't a real fuck up, this world with all the tragedy that is going on today wouldn't had happened.
Posted by: The Real Facts | April 16, 2021 at 04:57 AM
Wish all of creation would revolt and pull that asshole off his toilet and kill his ass and stuff his body in hell. Fuck a piece of shit god. Total fuck up asshole.
Posted by: God is a dick | May 07, 2021 at 11:32 AM
Wish all of creation would revolt and pull that asshole off his toilet and kill his ass and stuff his body in hell. Fuck a piece of shit god. Total fuck up asshole.
Posted by: God is a dick | May 07, 2021 at 11:32 AM
U happen to be that
cancerous Ass hole Motherfucker Dick piece of Shit
So do show all of Creation what U promised ! ! !
777
Posted by: 🙏 U, Motherfucker Dick Piece of Shit 🙏 | May 07, 2021 at 12:44 PM
Satan is the real God. And not this asshole God we have now.
Posted by: Satan Rules | May 11, 2021 at 02:49 PM
God was from the very beginning of time a real fuck up when he made this very horrible world to begin with, and he always will be a real fuck up until the very end of time.
Posted by: Guest | July 31, 2021 at 05:08 AM
God will always be a very rotten evil low life scumbag piece of shit for letting our America going to hell, especially with all these very pathetic foolish loser democrats that want to take over our America with their very horrible policies to begin with. Why doesn't that filthy scumbag God do something about it, and God is just a very severely fucking mentally retarded low life piece of garbage for letting this happen in the first place. We really need a real God to solve all these problems today that shouldn't be happening at all in the first place.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 16, 2021 at 05:27 PM
God is a complete fuck up and a real total low life loser altogether for punishing many of us good innocent people for no reason at all.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 07, 2021 at 08:46 AM
God is a complete fuck up and a real total low life loser altogether for punishing many of us good innocent people for no reason at all.
I completely agree and sympatise
Without You Anonymous
this bastard wouldn t exist
KILL HIM ,
HER IT
777
Posted by: 777 | November 09, 2021 at 08:03 AM
If there is a god out there of which Im not convinced,thats supposed to be all knowing all powerful then what is the purpose off all the shit thats happening in the world today.This supposed loving god blesses baby rapers and child killers with big fortunes and lavish lives only to keep the faithful person that goes to church everytime the door opens and lives a christian life in the gutter begging for food.How does that work.IF and thats a big if there is a god out there it does not care what is going on in the world today.Gods and religion are fairytales ment to keep mankind from killing one another off.Its nothing more then a tool to keep humanity acting civilized.Science can now explain the answers to all these questions that people from other generations didnt understand and attributed it to god.People were not created in gods image.If so then your god is a murdering child rapeist who steals and kills without remorse or reguard for anything.Humans do these things and if were in gods image then guess what your god does it to.Have faith in yourself amd the work you do.Putting faith in a fairytale mythical being is asking to be shit on your whole life.Were born we live life the best we can then we die.There is nothing out there after death.If you want something out of life go out and work to get it.Praying will get you nowhere.Your only speaking to yourself when praying..
Posted by: Chris Gilhaus | November 19, 2021 at 08:30 AM
God is getting butt fucked by Satan.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 26, 2021 at 05:18 PM
If God was so real like they say which i will never believe in that idiot anyway. How come he didn't stop 911 from happening if he is that powerful to begin with? A real God would've never ever made that happen at all, especially with all the other very horrible things that are happening in this very evil world today.
Posted by: Guest | December 11, 2021 at 06:30 AM
God is weak gutless piece of scum, he punishes the innocent and rewards sluts and cockhead.
Posted by: Fucking fed up | February 13, 2022 at 04:13 AM
Fucking fed up, . .
Good Self Knowledge and I agree
Let's Be better!
777
Posted by: 777 | February 13, 2022 at 06:46 AM
Even the worst criminal gets served at the McDonald's drive through just by calling out their order and waiting in line.....
But the police are on their way...
Don't confuse timing with injustice.
Posted by: Spence Tepper | February 13, 2022 at 07:23 AM
God is a real filthy scumbag piece of shit for destroying this world nowadays which tells it all. Look at these low life loser Democrats that are total morons to begin with, since God the retarded low life loser himself is letting them getting away with it unfortunately. And if we really had a Real God which this would had never happened at all in the first place, since God the idiot likes evil as i can see. Not to mention that God the asshole likes to make good innocent people suffer like us, and lets the evil people cause crime which he makes them do whatever the hell they want. Burn in hell God , you diseased infested piece of garbage along with your buddy Satan.
Posted by: Guest | February 16, 2022 at 07:15 AM
God is a real fuck up alright, and just look what is happening in our world right now.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 05, 2022 at 09:01 AM
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Posted by: Synonymous | March 05, 2022 at 02:48 PM
God is FUCKED, if exists, is just a hypocrite or an idiot.
Posted by: NC | March 09, 2022 at 12:20 PM
God is a real filthy no good piece of shit scumbag for punishing us innocent people for absolutely no reason at all, especially what is happening in our world right now. A real God would had stopped this madness already.
Posted by: God Really Sucks | March 24, 2022 at 04:13 AM
God is a real total fuck up altogether now, and just look what is happening in our world today right now. That tells it all.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 21, 2022 at 08:55 AM
How you feel is understandable from your perspective. From another perspective it might not be God who is responsible for all the suffering in this world.
Posted by: domino | April 21, 2022 at 09:48 PM
God is a real deranged motherfucker diseased infested pig altogether for letting evil happening. And just think of all the problems that is happening now which a real God wouldn't had let this happen at all period. I rest my case.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 30, 2022 at 06:20 AM
What if YOU are God?
Posted by: Synonymous | April 30, 2022 at 08:14 AM
This so called God we have now is a real filthy scumbag altogether. Now if i really was God then you wouldn't have any problems at all. And what is happening in our world now, wouldn't happen at all since i would've made peace, love, happiness, no cancer, and sicknesses at all either.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 01, 2022 at 03:44 PM
Daughter fought eating disorders 20+ years, destroying her life.
Marriage imploded against all efforts. Wife made run on assets and wiped out half of our wealth. Total waste of 25 years.
Father dies in my arms after a dreadful illness.
Elderly mother was super sharp on 12/25/21, breaks hip, has surgery that night, wakes up and gas been at 10% of her cognitive level ever since. I am taking care of her and will likely lose my job as a result.
I really appreciate having my mother not know my name…or not having any memories of anything…and I thank you for letting that happen within a blink of an eye.
I wore out rug after rug praying non-stop, did everything you’d expect and nothing happened….except never ending pain and suffering.
I will NEVER bend my knee again. NEVER. I will gladly rot in hell for eternity before I pray again.
Fuck you God….put that in your book of life in Helvetica 3billion font and shove up the ass of your worthless son.
Posted by: Eric | May 03, 2022 at 02:48 AM
God is a very rotten evil filthy piece of shit scumbag altogether for punishing many of us good innocent people for no reason at all, and he rewards all the evil ones. What a real fucking retard God is.
Posted by: God Is A Fuck Up | May 12, 2022 at 02:39 PM
And now you have this low life loser president along with his administration team trying to destroy America now with their awful policies that are being done on purpose by them. God you fucking retarded scumbag piece of shit, wake the fuck up already. God is a low life fucking loser and a real pig altogether since he is the one that really caused this to happen in the first place. We really need Trump back again. Burn in hell God you fucking pig.
Posted by: And That Is No Lie | May 21, 2022 at 08:51 AM
God is a real filthy scumbag. Plain and simple.
Posted by: HW | June 29, 2022 at 05:58 AM
God the filthy cocksucking scumbag piece of shit needs to burn in hell altogether for punishing the innocent.
Posted by: That Would Really Be Justice | July 12, 2022 at 11:16 AM
The post that keeps on giving the truth about how very evil God is.
Posted by: MW | November 04, 2022 at 10:28 AM
There is no God, Never has been and never will be. Fuck the human race!! It should all be eradicated once and for all...and it will be.
Posted by: Fuck You | November 09, 2022 at 12:04 AM
God is pure infinite evil and deserves every bit of hatred that is ever directed at him.
Posted by: X | November 24, 2022 at 12:34 AM
God the filthy no good piece of garbage scumbag needs to burn in hell with the Devil.
Posted by: Right On | November 25, 2022 at 06:33 AM
God the filthy scumbag should be rotting and burning in hell with Satan where he really belongs for punishing the innocent.
Posted by: OM | December 29, 2022 at 04:25 AM