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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: PocketLady] * 1
    #26364268 - 12/06/19 04:49 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I think that faith is pointless without someone to question it, even if it's yourself. We're all just playing out stories, in the grand scheme of things, and without challenge and mystery a story is naught but "going through the motions." That's not what you want out of life, not what you deserve. Certainly not what I want for my kids. No matter what we think about the road, as long as we know which one we're on we can always make it back home.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: larry.fisherman] * 3
    #26367105 - 12/07/19 02:35 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

In this neck of the woods, everything consists of dualities. So, there have to be those who believe and those who don't.

God doesn't have an inferiority complex, he's fine with you nolt believing in him. He knows that, from your point of view, you have valid reasons to.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Asante]
    #26367790 - 12/07/19 08:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Asante said:
In this neck of the woods, everything consists of dualities. So, there have to be those who believe and those who don't.

God doesn't have an inferiority complex, he's fine with you nolt believing in him. He knows that, from your point of view, you have valid reasons to.




Amen to that


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
    #26368264 - 12/08/19 03:04 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Who created God?





God created itself or God always was.




:kenthumbup:


You and I should have a beer sometime, Bill.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Loaded Shaman]
    #26368741 - 12/08/19 10:05 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Loaded Shaman said:
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Bill_Oreilly said:
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Loaded Shaman said:
Who created God?





God created itself or God always was.




:kenthumbup:


You and I should have a beer sometime, Bill.





I was gonna propose Bill and I got a room on a closed ward with good roomservice to play chicken with God and a quarter gram of PCP on the table. :rockon:

My place of course, we have universal healthcare :wink:


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Asante]
    #26391441 - 12/19/19 08:17 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

You mean, why did "I" create Atheists?


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Asante]
    #26391780 - 12/20/19 01:16 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Asante said:
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Loaded Shaman said:
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Bill_Oreilly said:
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Loaded Shaman said:
Who created God?





God created itself or God always was.




:kenthumbup:


You and I should have a beer sometime, Bill.





I was gonna propose Bill and I got a room on a closed ward with good roomservice to play chicken with God and a quarter gram of PCP on the table. :rockon:

My place of course, we have universal healthcare :wink:




Excellent, so if I come crashing through the windows like a ninja to join the party, my damages are covered! :cool:


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Loaded Shaman]
    #26391943 - 12/20/19 05:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Loaded Shaman said:
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Asante said:
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Loaded Shaman said:
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Bill_Oreilly said:
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Loaded Shaman said:
Who created God?





God created itself or God always was.




:kenthumbup:


You and I should have a beer sometime, Bill.





I was gonna propose Bill and I got a room on a closed ward with good roomservice to play chicken with God and a quarter gram of PCP on the table. :rockon:

My place of course, we have universal healthcare :wink:




Excellent, so if I come crashing through the windows like a ninja to join the party, my damages are covered! :cool:






Not just that, anesthesia's right on the table nigga :raisemyglass:


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Asante]
    #26393393 - 12/21/19 01:37 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I'm about to trip hard; what if mushrooms created God?

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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: PocketLady]
    #26393767 - 12/21/19 09:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I reject peoples personification of a higher power.  People thinking of an all knowing man wielding magic powers is a vast retardation.

Think of God as consciousness.  Not self, not ego, not a thing.  Most do not dare dream big enough.

That is why many worship the Universe.  The Universe is bigger than any idea of God, by far.  It will always come down to that people feel that their ego is real. Bwhat the ego creates feels real, in it's own shadowy way it knows it is not.

Religion mostly being from the ego, which is apparent.  I think if one had God, they wouldn't need much else.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Asante]
    #26403842 - 12/27/19 11:42 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Asante said:
In this neck of the woods, everything consists of dualities. So, there have to be those who believe and those who don't.

God doesn't have an inferiority complex, he's fine with you not believing in him. He knows that, from your point of view, you have valid reasons to.




^ I like this sentiment


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: PocketLady]
    #26403845 - 12/27/19 11:46 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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"Why did God create Atheists?

There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson.

One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”

The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”

“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

- Martin Buber, Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 (1991)




Thanks for bringing this book to my attention!


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: PocketLady]
    #26403874 - 12/28/19 12:23 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

God created an infinite range of possibility so that there is a medium for which free-will could be exercised.

An atheist is one of many possible outcomes.
A stupid one as even a man of science is of a belief system which has a branch of theology and theory.

Nonetheless, it has been afforded that a man may exercise their free-will to make a fool of themselves.

Focus more on big picture ideology vs trying to reason through the idiotic self selections of man and you will elevate your mind.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: Antigov] * 1
    #26418063 - 01/05/20 05:59 PM (4 years, 24 days ago)

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God created free will, atheism is just the symptom.




I fully agree. And in the OP, the act of Love to another person outside of religion is ironically an example of God's Love flowing thru the Atheist.

I also believe from reading Pleiadian Channelings that humans are slowing creeping out of a spiritual "dark age" where Atheism and Materialism was more common.


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Re: Why did God Create Atheists? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26418093 - 01/05/20 06:16 PM (4 years, 24 days ago)

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I also believe from reading Pleiadian Channelings that humans are slowing creeping out of a spiritual "dark age" where Atheism and Materialism was more common.





How does this work when people appear to be more asleep?
Atheism and Materialism are on the rise are they not? Big time...


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