Bachmann: "We Must cry out to God to Stop Hillary"

[zakededodead]

Time to start the election race already?

[Moustacheman]

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;42182945]If the story were true, wouldn't it be the stone and David, and not god? She literally invalidates David's entire life - his knowledge of physics, of high tech (at the time) weapons and their use, and anything he was raised to believe or stand for (and even the strength of his arm!). She reduces him to a chess piece that God decided to move forwards one space, winning the game. It's frightening how much credit people give to this mythical figure - at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, they speak of their personal god dragging them by the hair away from alcohol, rather than giving themselves any credit for what they've done.

I guess if Bachmann won (God forbid), I could turn around and say it wasn't her or her policy, but a weirdo supernatural being who likes things done a certain way just because. Same for if she loses. She didn't lose because of anything except that God wanted her not to win.

Such is the logical clusterfuck that is western religion. They don't believe that humans ever accomplish anything - it is literally the least humanist perspective available, short of existential nihilism.[/QUOTE]

I always thought of it as God gave David the courage and knowledge of semi-advanced ranged weaponry to defeat Goliath. Not God grabbed David's arm and guided him through the highly specific steps required to kill a giant.

[ewitwins]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;42182596]So I guess she relies on God to do her boring job for her.[/QUOTE]

Good.

That'll make it easier to run against her.

[HumanAbyss]

[QUOTE=Moustacheman;42193238]I always thought of it as God gave David the courage and knowledge of semi-advanced ranged weaponry to defeat Goliath. Not God grabbed David's arm and guided him through the highly specific steps required to kill a giant.[/QUOTE]

still makes it gods work and not david's

what's the point of david if god had to do any of the work for him

[SexualShark]

spoiler alert:

[sp]god left america awhile back[/sp]

[FreakyMe]

[QUOTE=SexualShark;42193567]spoiler alert:

[sp]god left america awhile back[/sp][/QUOTE]

If he was ever real, I think he left all of Earth a long time ago, and went off to experiment elsewhere in the vast universe he built.

I [URL="http://i.cubeupload.com/BWVrQz.jpg"]wrote a Villanelle on the subject[/URL] - If we were created, I don't think it was for the test of salvation versus damnation. I think it would be more like a 'thought experiment', to see what happens when the circumstances play out, with objective indifference to the results of the experiment. All of history's evidence would seem to indicate that rather than a directly intervening deity, if I entertain the notion that there is or ever was one.