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Atheists & Agnostics

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)

17. When my husband was in Iraq

Reply to Croney (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:25 AM

Jan 2018

people talked of those dying and calling it "God's will".

I said that if anyone were to say that to me I would shoot them in the gut and as they lay dying I would ask - Was this also God's will?

I don't own a gun, btw.

Still, the looks I got. LMAO

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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