Isnt This The Truth. I Just Read This, Posted By A 17 Year Old Sri Lankan Female Friend. (A Talented Young Lady To Say The Least)!!

[RATTER15]

When people say 'God is kind and loving' just because their own lives aren't a perpetual daily saga of misery, hunger, thirst and disease...
How self-centered and oblivious must one be to declare something so obtuse when MILLIONS are born into the poverty cycle every week and will spend virtually all of their lives fighting to stay alive? Millions more are born in and around conflict zones with a very small window of opportunity for anything besides escaping explosions, dogding bullets and making agonising trips all over the place as refugees.
How easy to say 'I'll pray for them' and wash your hands off this stark reality. If a God needs someone to pray in order to help these people, s/he is already an inept OR cruel being.
But seeing as generations of people have been praying and that hasn't done ball to eradicate conflict zones or poverty, maybe you should consider if your prayers are actually being heard by anyone besides yourself. After all, you can never pray to pass an exam, sit on your ass and do absolutely nothing and then pass with distinction, can you?
What a coincidence that your prayers only seem to work when human effort is put into the said task ONLY, eh? And what sort of a loving God prioritises your prayers for landing that promotion over prayers for millions of starving and dehydrated children emaciating away in poverty? Or people dying from wars- most of which are fought IN HIS NAME?

[chanel5]

I so agree. People who claim that god is good are so blinkered.

[Khandro]

Yawn!

[dunnitall]

Quite right Clarion....but without religion in mainstream thought where are we going to find wars to fight and kill...? Sigh...

[Retrochic]

Other peoples Beliefs should be respected even if not believed -this is what my Belief says (Pagan). Nothing talented in a few badly written and even more badly researched paragraphs basically slagging off the religious beliefs of millions of people. Most starvation in the World is down to Politics not Religion.

[Gizmonster]

Amen to that ......

[steg]

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dunnitall
Quite right Clarion....but without religion in mainstream thought where are we going to find wars to fight and kill...? Sigh...
13:56 Sat 23rd May 2015Report


The first, second world wars, Russian revolution, China revolution, napoleon,etc all non religious wars all worse than any religious wars by a mile

[Retrochic]

Clarion - sorry I will clarify -respect their right to believe in what they want to, even if you privately think its misguided. Tolerate is perhaps a better word.

[Retrochic]

Steg exactly! Most modern conflicts (wars) have little to do with Religion and more to do with Politics or Economics. Unfortunately Terrorism is overtaking 'Wars' and this is for the main part mainly linked to Religion.

[steg]

"Or people dying from wars- most of which are fought IN HIS NAME?"

If I started a war and said I was doing it in Ratters name, would that then be Ratters fault and the blame put on Ratter?

[Khandro]

clarion; You miss-interpret my yawn; I've heard it so much before on here, now it comes from 17 year old Sri Lankan 'Talented young lady' who seems not to understand even her own culture, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is a Buddhist country, Buddhists do not necessarily believe in God and yet they pray. Prayer is a very important aspect of humanity, and at its best it can raise beings beyond savagery.
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, and the mightier the forces against evil will be strengthened. Prayer, in one aspect of its purpose and at its best, purifies the air and destroys the contagion of evil.

[steg]

"When people say 'God is kind and loving' just because their own lives aren't a perpetual daily saga of misery, hunger, thirst and disease...
How self-centered and oblivious must one be to declare something so obtuse when MILLIONS are born into the poverty cycle every week and will spend virtually all of their lives fighting to stay alive? Millions more are born in and around conflict zones with a very small window of opportunity for anything besides escaping explosions, dogding bullets and making agonising trips all over the place as refugees. "

The funny thing is.. These are usually the most religious countries And these are usually the most religious people

[jomifl]

The only difference between political leaders and religious leaders is that the politicians are more honest or less mad. In reality there is little difference between religious wars and political wars except that religious differences rarely heal until the blood stops flowing ...because one side has been exterminated.

[steg]

Like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin? all political leaders all Pretty much mad to me, between them they are responsible for +10s of millions deaths

[237SJ]

When you say "friend" do you mean a friend or someone you have never met? Have you been to Sri Lanka? I have and I have not met fanatiicism there being that most of the population are either Buddish or Hindu. If you don`t mind me saying, you seem a little bit obsessed...

[237SJ]

*buddhist*

[wildwood]

Oh RATTER15, you have mirrored my thoughts exactly.

[wildwood]

steg - The omnipotent god most religions worship is the creator of everything, Hitler etc. and all. So if he is real it IS his fault.