Ahhh.. therein lies your problem, my man. What if, 20 years before the mass shooting happens, the would be perpetrator of that mass shooting (to occur 20 years in the future) died at the hands of childhood cancer...are you going to applaud God for preventing this unspeakable tragedy 20 years before it happened, or are you going to yell at God for allowing children to die from cancer??
When did I say "who are we to question?" I question God all the time. I don't understand why He does what He does. Or why He allows what He allows. But He's God, I'm not. It's rather pretty simple.
Dude...any chance you get to bag on Chrisitans and pervert what they say, you 100% take. Anyone who reads what I posted (and everyone in this thread knows me and my posting style), knows the intent and context behind what I posted.
Never understood why Christians represent their faith with a cross. I mean.... if the the JC story is true, upon his return, seeing all these crosses should piss him off. Not very welcoming to say the least.
Seems more respectable than your pastors and priests corn-holing little boys.
I’ll wax your wife or gf with ZERO regrets and actually show her a decent time for once while having her dropped back off before midnight so you can stop clutching your pearls and wondering where she is.
Perhaps your greatest accomplishment in life, and you can keep the ho.
Jesus is real and in my life....he's tossing my salad at this very moment.
You are being sarcastic, because he is acting like an atheist.
His daddy taught him all about the "missionary" position.
Exactly. I’m going to punish your wives and then I’ll ask for forgiveness and all is well.
Yeah, but as a Bab-tist friend of mine once said (with a straight face) about the Catholics, "those people aren't real Christians".....
Of course it will. Every sort of failure will happen to individuals within the church or any institution. People are not made sinless because they are in the church. Many are there because they recognize their sin and their need for a savior. You can walk through a hospital and see more sick people than you would see walking through a museum, but you would never go to a museum if you felt sick. The church is filled with sinners. No doubt. Sinners will sin and sin hurts people. The church is no exception.
My mom's church deacon cousin went to prison for it. There were other victims over the years besides the two he was convicted for, including a kid I grew up with who told said he'd kill him if he ever got the chance.
There is absolutely no question that sexual abuse has been a serious prevalent problem, of course, but it seems to me that vows of celibacy contribute mightily, along with the propensity of gays to "escape into the cloth" over the years by joining the priesthood. I see no reason why priests should not be permitted to marry in the Roman Catholic church, as they are in some rites of the Catholic tradition.
Some of those were fables just like anything else. Also, God and some of those stories aren’t supposed to be logical. You can’t apply logic to God. You’re trying to take your experience on earth and fit God into the same hole while using the wrong peg. You don’t have to believe, I certainly don’t give **** if you do, it’s just weird you spend so much time trying to make others believe what you do when that’s never going to happen.
