How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby steven lloyd » Feb 19th, 2012, 7:57 pm

Hmmm wrote:I sure hope that all of you who are mocking God, are atheists because if you do believe in him and still mock him, that's totally different. As for the rest of you, you better hope he isn't real.

Yes, because God is nothing if not insecure and vengeful.

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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Imreal » Feb 19th, 2012, 8:24 pm

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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby cliffy1 » Feb 19th, 2012, 8:47 pm

Hmmm wrote:I sure hope that all of you who are mocking God, are atheists because if you do believe in him and still mock him,that's totally different. As for the rest of you, you better hope he isn't real. I do believe he's real and reading briefly your remarks are like listening to complete immature children with low IQ's. Mocking in general just isn't nice and the ones who do it, ARE childish.

And, of course, it would never occur to you that many people have trouble reconciling a god who so insecure and emotionally immature as to require constant praise and adoration, is prone to fits of jealousy and rage and would make his imperfect creation fry for eternity for the slightest infraction of its silly rules? I don't think people mock god so much as they mock this god of yours.

I have as much trouble trying to figure out why people need a god to bow down to, who need a master to tell them how to live and behave toward their fellow travelers. There are millions of people who find joy and meaning in life without a god. Is not life itself enough to justify getting out of bed in the morning?

As to prayer, there are different types. If it helps people consolidate their thoughts, focus on themselves, no harm is done. But most god botherers I have met are so focused on their selfish petty needs that if I were god, I would slap them upside the head with a 2 X 4. "I want a 52" plasma TV just like Henry's." I would give it to him alright: drop it on his head from 6 miles up.
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Thinktank » Feb 20th, 2012, 2:50 pm

Hmmm wrote:I sure hope that all of you who are mocking God, are atheists because....


this forum has an amazing amount of atheists for some reason. But my thread is in
no way intended to mock God. I like to mock religious people sometimes though.




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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Glacier » Feb 20th, 2012, 2:58 pm

Mockery is a sign one has a bad case of trolls.
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Captain Awesome » Feb 20th, 2012, 3:09 pm

Thinktank wrote:this forum has an amazing amount of atheists for some reason.


I think it's mainly because atheists choose to be very vocal and militant about their believes while religious people are fairly secure in their believes and see no need to troll atheists about their views. In that sense, atheists come off as very childish and insecure. There are exceptions of course, but that's the main picture.
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby 5VP » Feb 21st, 2012, 9:15 am

This is all fully explained in the Urantia Book.

It's more of a chain of command process...
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby kina » Feb 21st, 2012, 9:39 am

Captain Awesome wrote:
Thinktank wrote:this forum has an amazing amount of atheists for some reason.


I think it's mainly because atheists choose to be very vocal and militant about their believes while religious people are fairly secure in their believes and see no need to troll atheists about their views. In that sense, atheists come off as very childish and insecure. There are exceptions of course, but that's the main picture.


Not quite sure how you came to this conclusion since as far as I can see if religious people were so secure about their views then they wouldn't accuse everyone else of being sinners for not agreeing with them.

But both sides are silly for professing that they are 100% certain that a God does/does not exist. A faith is something that you need to believe even when you cannot explain it. That's why it's called a faith. At this point, any attempt to prove or disprove of His existence is futile. How do you intend to prove the non/existence of something that is supposed to be almighty, untouchable and unseen?

Why can't anyone just admit that we DON'T KNOW and only BELIEVE? Isn't arrogance something that both sides are against?
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Imreal » Feb 21st, 2012, 10:04 am

I've got better things to do with my time than waste it on superstition.
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Captain Awesome » Feb 21st, 2012, 10:59 am

kina wrote:Not quite sure how you came to this conclusion since as far as I can see if religious people were so secure about their views then they wouldn't accuse everyone else of being sinners for not agreeing with them.


I'm only talking about people on Castanet. I don't see (not sure if I ever saw) people accusing others of being sinners. But I do see a whole lot of people proclaiming that religious people are idiots and religions are stupid since there's no god. Hence my observation that non-religious people tend to be more insecure in their position and have to reinforce it constantly by making such claims.

PS: I'm not religious.
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby steven lloyd » Feb 21st, 2012, 7:29 pm

Imreal wrote:I've got better things to do with my time than waste it on superstition.

If that’s true, then why are you here implying people with spiritual or religious beliefs are superstitious
– instead of just having beliefs different from yourself ?
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby -fluffy- » Feb 21st, 2012, 8:02 pm

Imreal wrote:I've got better things to do with my time than waste it on superstition.


Let me guess, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" re-runs?
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Hmmm » Feb 21st, 2012, 8:06 pm

Imreal wrote:I've got better things to do with my time than waste it on superstition.

All I heard was, blah blah blah troll. "Hey look at me, I'm making a face"
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Re: How can God hear 7 billion people's prayers?

Postby Imreal » Feb 21st, 2012, 8:11 pm

Yep :sillygrin:
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