Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

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4. during Obama's eulogy for Rev. Pinkney at the AME church in Charleston, S.C....

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 09:06 PM

Jul 2015

...Obama made reference to God "using" Dylann Roof (using evil) to accomplish something good (changing people's hearts? removing the Confederate flag?)

Which I think is totally fucked up. It just removes ALL personal responsibility from everyone. We are all nothing but pawns and automatons in some cheesy fucked up tragicomedy.

No, YOU didn't murder those Bible studiers. GOD made you murder those people to accomplish .... what?

(slow shake of the head)

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Another mass shooting, and yet again we're told: don't politicize, pray [View all] mr blur Jul 2015 OP

And of course, this is enabled by skepticscott Jul 2015 #1

I pray that the people who pray get a clue olddots Jul 2015 #2

If god is all powerful... Binkie The Clown Jul 2015 #3

during Obama's eulogy for Rev. Pinkney at the AME church in Charleston, S.C.... RussBLib Jul 2015 #4

And bring teddy bears to the theater.. that always helps. mountain grammy Jul 2015 #5

In fairness, teddy bears do much better than God. AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #7

Ha, good point! mountain grammy Jul 2015 #8

And on the news this evening, Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #6

Yeah, so god withheld his "grace" NastyRiffraff Jul 2015 #9

There is just nothing to say to that logic. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #10