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Do non religious people pray to god when things are going bad or a disaster is looming?
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Do you know anyone that has done this? Have you? Did it help?
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I have been in a situation on a bicycle where something took control of the handlebars as I was about to ride across an intersection against the traffic lights just before they changed.
I drove parallel to a car that had pushed the "orange" envelope.
Still I don't see a God our Creator. More like a God, our Creation.
I drove parallel to a car that had pushed the "orange" envelope.
Still I don't see a God our Creator. More like a God, our Creation.
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I am an Atheist, I have been in a few desperate situations and I just hoped that things would turn out OK, but never would I turn to some ridiculous notion that an imaginary, invisible man in the sky, with an appalling track record would do anything at all.
I have also made it very clear that if ever I am in situation where I may die or desperately ill I will not want any representative of any religious organisation anywhere near me!! That is one thing that would ensure my passing would be a miserable affair, having vicar spouting off a load hogwash!!
Yes I can imagine when people are facing death that some would pray to God, we can all grasp at straws when faced with desperation.
Some times we cannot see logic.
I have also made it very clear that if ever I am in situation where I may die or desperately ill I will not want any representative of any religious organisation anywhere near me!! That is one thing that would ensure my passing would be a miserable affair, having vicar spouting off a load hogwash!!
Yes I can imagine when people are facing death that some would pray to God, we can all grasp at straws when faced with desperation.
Some times we cannot see logic.
Some may, some may not. Individual decision.
No, no large hands plucking folk away, but who is to say when a disaster has been averted, what the cause was? I think whether a diety exists and is more inclined to help on request, is another of those personal opinion things that doesn't gain a lot from discussion.
No, no large hands plucking folk away, but who is to say when a disaster has been averted, what the cause was? I think whether a diety exists and is more inclined to help on request, is another of those personal opinion things that doesn't gain a lot from discussion.
I agree with OG. As I have said elsewhere, every single post in this category, stripped of its varied phraseology, boils down to one of two things: There is/isn't a God. Until I read a single post in which someone says that the discussion here has led to him being changed from an atheist to a believer or vice versa, I will continue to regard it as a waste of time and pixels, as it is nothing more than an opportunity for people to reiterate their entrenched views.
I am an atheist however I am in awe of the 'power' of the universe and the processes that we barely understand that created our planet and every living thing. There is a higher power in the universe, it is the 'why' and 'how' of it all but that power has no intelligence, or even a beard. Praying is just about the most useless thing that anybody can do to resolve a situation.
mike11111, why would you expect a conversion either way?
Atheists are rational people, no more to be persuaded by stories of ancient gods than they are by stories of unicorns and fortune-tellers.
Religionists are not rational and are therefore immune to fact, evidence, argument, logic and commonsense.
I suppose there are some rational people who hope that the occasional religionist, one day, will start using the intellect that evolution has given him or her. Hope springs eternal.
Atheists are rational people, no more to be persuaded by stories of ancient gods than they are by stories of unicorns and fortune-tellers.
Religionists are not rational and are therefore immune to fact, evidence, argument, logic and commonsense.
I suppose there are some rational people who hope that the occasional religionist, one day, will start using the intellect that evolution has given him or her. Hope springs eternal.
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