World Youth Day in Poland
July 24th, 2016 at 4:28:55 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | I remember a large bunch of kids gathered on a hill and singing I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing In Perfect Harmony .... Coke ad. |
July 25th, 2016 at 6:08:58 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Just got back from Auschwitz. This was my second time there and this time was different. It was a very somber and prayerful walk through the camps. Maybe it was the crowds, maybe it was the prayers, but that awful place felt more hopeful than my experience before. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 25th, 2016 at 11:44:08 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Your god answered no prayers there 75 years ago, what's changed. Oh, the camps were finally liberated, too little too late. That was inevitable, god had nothing to do with it. God changed water into wine, the least he could have done in make the killer gas inert. He didn't do it because he doesn't exist. Obviously. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 25th, 2016 at 2:39:26 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | There were many prayers answered there and for those who knew God was with them and suffering with them that truth was something they could hold onto that no torture could take away. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 25th, 2016 at 2:42:42 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Okay so World Youth Day officially begins tomorrow and goes till Sunday. This place is just popping, it is so amazing! Everywhere you look there is some pilgrim group from some far off land. Everyone is seeming to have a great time even if it is all a little overwhelming for some. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 25th, 2016 at 3:13:50 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
So what you're saying is, god is powerless and useless. You can pray to him but he can't answer or do anything for you, all he can do is 'suffer' with you. My dog does that and I don't even have to deify him. And he really does love me, unlike that tricky love of your god that nobody can seem pin down. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 25th, 2016 at 3:21:54 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Lots of like minded people getting together in a large group is always 'popping'. Ever been to a big Nascar event? I was at Watkins Glen in 1973, I popped for the next decade after that. You're trying to imply that a bunch of Christians getting together is different from any other group that gathers in large numbers. It's not. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 25th, 2016 at 6:20:31 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Auschwitz really isn't part of this thread but since its been brought up... what strength did God give those who had to wait briefly outside the shower doors, they always voided bladders and bowels. |
July 25th, 2016 at 8:07:20 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18556 |
Truly, if you can justify the idea that god intervened successfully at Auschwitz, you can defend god against any charge. Who is he again? All powerful and all loving? What a demonstration of intervention. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
July 25th, 2016 at 9:20:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
God waited for the Yanks to arrive, just like everybody else. The Holocaust is evidence that no god exists. If he did exist, and he let it happen to the people he promised to protect, what good is he to anybody. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |