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Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

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17. just shows you how strong the Devil is!!!

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #16)

Sat Jun 20, 2015, 05:29 PM

Jun 2015

just playing Devil's advocate, so to speak.

(I do not personally subscribe to these views; they are a regurgitation of the kinds of things I have heard some faithiests say)

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Why divine intervention after the shooting instead of before? (Charleston) [View all] progree Jun 2015 OP

That's because god works in mysterious ways Yorktown Jun 2015 #1

Yep. It's all part of his master plan. progressoid Jun 2015 #2

I suppose. Our ways are not God's ways. nm progree Jun 2015 #3

Finally - we have the explanation progree Jun 2015 #8

You see? God always prevails in the end. Yorktown Jun 2015 #21

It would be a pretty good trick to explain it even then Major Nikon Jun 2015 #26

You must take it on faith Yorktown Jun 2015 #27

That drove me nuts too. trotsky Jun 2015 #4

Or blow out the tire of the little nitwit on the way to the church in the first place A HERETIC I AM Jun 2015 #14

Typical egotistical crap AlbertCat Jun 2015 #5

that's too easy RussBLib Jun 2015 #6

Thanks. I forgot about that one. nm progree Jun 2015 #7

Right. And even though the loving omnipotent deity created the devil in the first place, Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #16

just shows you how strong the Devil is!!! RussBLib Jun 2015 #17

No, I know. I figure people posting in A&A don't really believe this stuff. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #18

Most of us just believe in the one true god, the Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster Yorktown Jun 2015 #22

Indeed. Believing in other deities is just fusilli. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #25

Which would be a penne in the *** Yorktown Jun 2015 #28

Intervention nil desperandum Jun 2015 #9

You dare to question the wisdom of God? Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #10

Or maybe God himself was playing golf? Yorktown Jun 2015 #23

Glad you posted this. onager Jun 2015 #11

Best explanation yet: Mental illness, evil, and Caitlyn Jenner progree Jun 2015 #12

what makes people susceptible? RussBLib Jun 2015 #13

Evolutionary genes misfiring. Yorktown Jun 2015 #24

Yeah. It's frankly sad and pathetic how people don't connect the dots on this. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #15

What? Nobody has shown up to snark and sneer Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #19

Sanity in an insane world AuntPatsy Jun 2015 #20

I was chastised in GD for commenting on a mountain grammy Jun 2015 #29

I believe the term is "fuck you, got mine" AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 #30