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re: why would God need the "glory?"

Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:47 am to
Posted by Nuts4LSU
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:47 am to
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Unlimited omnipotence would mean that the Being could see all and know all.


Isn't ALL omnipotence "unlimited"? What would limited omnipotence mean?
Posted by Nuts4LSU
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:50 am to
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Religion is however the only aspect of life people throw science and logic completely out the window and just believe fantasy stories that sound like they should be told to children as morality tales.



Not even close. People also do that in politics, love, sports affiliations, etc. I would go so far as to speculate that people are illogical in more situations than they are logical.
Posted by td01241
Savannah
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:52 am to
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politics


No. People support politicians for certain reasons. They may be stupid, but not illogical

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love


This is a feeling inside of you. You either have it for someone or you don't. Like above, when you are in love you may do stupid things, but not illogical things like believing in imaginary things you have never seen or witnessed.

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sports affiliations


This one doesn't even make sense in relation to the thread. You like a sports team for whatever reason you want. Logic doesn't come into play.

It's literally the same thing as believing in Santa Claus.
Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 2:18 pm to
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Why do players point to the sky when they give all the glory to God? Why do they think God lives in the sky in that direction? A soccer player playing on the other side of the world who points to the sky would be pointing in the opposite direction. It's just astonishing to me how easily people are brainwashed.


Annnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddddddddddddd I'm out
Posted by Nuts4LSU
Washington, DC
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:44 pm to
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No. People support politicians for certain reasons. They may be stupid, but not illogical


Of course they're illogical. People support candidates all the time whose policies directly contradict their own interests just because a preacher or Fox News or a 30-second commercial told them to or because the musical score of a campaign commercial made them feel all warm and patriotic, totally oblivious to evidence that is readily available and contradicts their voting choice.

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when you are in love you may do stupid things, but not illogical things like believing in imaginary things you have never seen or witnessed.


If you have caught your wife cheating multiple times and every time she promises it'll never happen again and you believe her and take her back, aren't you believing in a fantasy just as illogical and imaginary as religion?

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sports affiliations


This one doesn't even make sense in relation to the thread. You like a sports team for whatever reason you want. Logic doesn't come into play.


I guess I should have been a little clearer on this one. I meant that people are often illogical or irrational about their team, such as blindly and optimistically expecting them to fare better than any rational outside observer would expect them to, or the opposite type who irrationally or illogically expect them to fare worse than any rational observer would expect them to.

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It's literally the same thing as believing in Santa Claus.


Yes, and so is trusting pure laissez-faire economics or Marxist communism, or thinking your wife will somehow remain faithful this time if you just give her one more chance, or believing that Ole Miss will finally get to the SEC championship game next year.

It happens in lots of aspects of life, not just religion.
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 4:46 pm
Posted by PurpleandGeauld
Florence, TX
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:49 pm to
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Why do players point to the sky when they give all the glory to God? Why do they think God lives in the sky in that direction? A soccer player playing on the other side of the world who points to the sky would be pointing in the opposite direction. It's just astonishing to me how easily people are brainwashed.


It is like connecting your heart to love. Your physical heart has nothing to do with love (well it beats faster when you see your sweetheart, but not because love is in your heart). Sky connected to heaven is kinda like that.

But anyways, God is there, and here, and everywhere. And He really really hopes you decide you want to spend always with Him =)
Posted by Gradual_Stroke
Bee Cave, TX
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:52 pm to
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Your physical heart has nothing to do with love



There are poorly designed studies which actually show an increased risk of CHF in patients who had underwent divorce vs patients whom were happily married. So I think the love of a woman actually is very much connected to heart health.
Posted by Old Sarge
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:01 pm to
Love of a woman? Or betrayal of a bitch?


I say the latter
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:04 pm to
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I mean, if you believe a Supreme Being created and controls the entire universe, than this God would obviously consider a mere football game played by his naked apes to be very insignificant.
Well, no. They believe in a personal God who does in fact, give a shite.

You're asking why people who believe in a loving God don't abide by your specific atheistic conception of "God". Lol.
Posted by Old Sarge
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:07 pm to
You missed the part where he says that if you believe in God you are not capable of being LOGICAL
Posted by genro
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:12 pm to
Imagine if you created a world of apes and then they created this thing called logic and used it to say you didn't exist.

You'd be like, frick you, give me some glory!
Posted by Gradual_Stroke
Bee Cave, TX
Member since Oct 2012
20917 posts
Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:13 pm to
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world of apes



also known as a "planet of the"
Posted by Gradual_Stroke
Bee Cave, TX
Member since Oct 2012
20917 posts
Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:15 pm to
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You'd be like, frick you, give me some glory!




Not at all. Cosmic horror has it right. The universe is so vast, so unsympathetic, that we can't comprehend how insignificant we are. We are a speck of dust in an ocean.



The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
- HP Lovecraft



Pouring myself another whiskey



This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 5:19 pm
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:25 pm to
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are a speck of dust in an ocean



Not to your Creator, He knows the number of hairs on your head.
Posted by Mullet Flap
Lysdexia
Member since Jun 2015
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 5:42 pm to
Everyone's imaginary friend doesn't give two shits about an organized game on a little speck of grass
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 6:20 pm to
He's got an ego as big as all creation.
Posted by Gradual_Stroke
Bee Cave, TX
Member since Oct 2012
20917 posts
Posted on 2/1/16 at 6:33 pm to
Wish I could have that kind of faith. I just don't believe in God anymore.
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 2/1/16 at 6:36 pm to
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I just don't believe in God anymore.

The way I see it, the existence of God is so utterly illogical, so incredibly irrational ... that it must be true.
Posted by bayoumuscle21
St. George
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:27 pm to
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Mattwells90


Well said.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:36 pm to
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I just don't believe in God anymore.



And you know what? That's fine. Belief in a deity is a personal thing at the end of the day.

I believe in God, and that's also fine.

I honestly don't understand why some folks waste so much time arguing till they're blue in the face over the existence of God. It's a pointless exercise.
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