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By: Urban

Urban — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:11:53 +0000

I find a lot of comfort in the realization that life is inherently unfair. I therefore don’t deserve the random bad stuff that just happens.

By: The "Eh" theist

The "Eh" theist — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:36:22 +0000

This is bang on with the way many try to tease God’s will out of circumstances. While that is a problem, an even greater one is when other believers have an opinion about something and the “evidence” of circumstances convinces them they are right.

They don’t like the career field you’ve chosen and when you get a flat on the way to a job interivew it was “god” stopping you from making a mistake. If you then become a fry cook and later get an offer in your field that pays a living wage, the devil is tempting you with money.

OTOH, if they like a potential partner for you, any similarity, no matter how silly is proof that god has “matched” you. (you both breathe-praise god, he knows just the sort of person we need).

That is a whole new level of harmful-believers will gladly let someone suffer or endanger themselves if they think god has ok’d it while they’re own sense of self-preservation would stop them from doing the same thing.

Put a trusting beliver in the path of an opinionated believer who believes god has told them how to run that person’s life and misery *will* ensue.

There should be a surgeon general’s warning on pronouncements of god’s will.

By: April

April — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:08:00 +0000

And THAT is specifically why I am a much more grounded person since finally coming to the realization that I’m an atheist (referring to Godless Girl’s post). EVERYthing is easier, simpler. The natural world is beautifully complicated, but so completely unconcerned with anything I do.

By: Jacob Olerich

Jacob Olerich — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:20:10 +0000

Here’s how I live my Christian life(because I have the “God what’s your micro-will for my life?”moments a lot). The key for me is to remember that God directs my steps no matter what I plan and that God gives us His word for a reason. Adam and Eve only had one instruction. “don’t eat that damned fruit.” The rest of life seems to have been for their choosing. Fast forwarding to now, I look at Luke’s account(chapter 10) for God’s will today… || And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading [of it]? “So he answered and said, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ” And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.” || Just living life as a loving response to God’s love. That’s where the yoke becomes easy and the burden becomes light. Past that, sometimes your toast just burns, your tv just stops working, and you just get stuck in that traffic jam. I think it’s honest misinformation from other people and our own mind that leads us to believe it has to me more complicated than that. God is not talking to us through burnt toast and car accidents. I agree with you there, GGirl. and Timmy.

By: Godless Girl

Godless Girl — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:48:23 +0000

Thank goodness and good for you! Who wants a piece of bread to tell them what to do in life anyway

By: Doubting Timmy

Doubting Timmy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:26:11 +0000

I can definitely relate to this post. As a person who has obsessive/compulsive tendencies, I nearly drove myself mad trying to parse the meaning of everyday occurrences and what was god’s will for me.

After shedding that belief system, I’m much calmer and happier now knowing that there isn’t some cosmic message in a piece of burnt toast.

By: Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:12:05 +0000

Sometimes I just have f*ck luck – other times I f*ck myself.

Can’t do anything about the former so I focus on the latter.

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