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Atheists & Agnostics

Brainstormy

(2,380 posts)

16. funny you should mention that

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #15)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 01:04 AM

Jan 2018

my friends (old friends, literally and literally) were just talking the other day about the fact that when we were growing up it was not "fashionable" to even mention your religion. To ask, for example, one of the first questions one encounters today, "What church do you go to?" would have been considered crass and intrusive. Even Emily Post (does anyone remember her?) made a point of saying that religion was a private matter and not appropriate for most social contexts. Things have really changed.

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So. You prayed, and she died anyway. [View all] Croney Jan 2018 OP

Witch dunking. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #1

Ah yes. Same thing. Croney Jan 2018 #3

people can be made to believe anything Skittles Jan 2018 #2

And these very people voted for him. Croney Jan 2018 #4

so they wouldnt even recognize the good drs and nurses who would have saved her? samnsara Jan 2018 #5

Only by saying that God worked through them to bestow his miracle. Croney Jan 2018 #6

I served on a Hospital Board years ago SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #7

So, he didnt believe all medicine was an attempt to defy Gods will. Croney Jan 2018 #8

He used the religion card SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #9

There is a direct relationship with people believing stopbush Jan 2018 #10

When a tornado hits one house and skips the next... Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #11

so, if they truly believed in an afterlife what difference would it make if she lived or died? rurallib Jan 2018 #12

That's the kind of question they just won't answer. Mariana Jan 2018 #18

We're a countable number of generations removed from flinging poop Freelancer Jan 2018 #13

The same reason people believe the "flat earth theory"... BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #14

I can honestly say mountain grammy Jan 2018 #15

funny you should mention that Brainstormy Jan 2018 #16

It's still that way where I live now. Mariana Jan 2018 #19

When my husband was in Iraq Solly Mack Jan 2018 #17