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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 12:39 PM Original message |
If one is called by their God to run a country, but doesn't get elected, |
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XanaDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Or maybe God bet on the wrong horse?nt |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Thus proving fallability, therefore, not a god. |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Devine practical joke |
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Kalidurga (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Then clearly... |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. It's the governable that you got to keep your eye on |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. So. you'd advocate God employing a "Sodom and Gomorrah" type remedy again |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. 'divine' nt |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Gahd haites speling Natsis. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 06:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. Response #2 (yours) states there is no god. Pick a position, and stick to it. nt |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. God also hates binary thinkers. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:37 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. How do you come to speak about what god hates having said there is not one? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. God spoke to me last night. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. "Or are they just delusional psychotics who hear voices in their heads?" |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. See post #22, or #23, for that matter. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Narcissism from a religious perspective aint all that different |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Look, this isn't about me. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Look, this isn't about me. |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
33. I weigh each side about equal... n/a |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. I posed this very same question to a bagger |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. My usual response to that little bit of sophistry is |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. An apparent pattern of behaviour. Look at what he put Abraham through n/t |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Sheepshank |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. I remember when Bush claimed God talked to him - should have had a psych evaluation |
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Kurmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" |
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bengalherder (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. From nothing, eh. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. If one believes a god that is eternal, and always existed |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. No, it just means God has a wicked sense of humor. |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. COLGATE4 |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. Maybe it means the voters voted for someone else, using the 'free will' |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. God calls you to run a country by giving you a country to run, not by voices in your head. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. I'd tell him to stuff it if he asked me to run *this* country. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. God is tricky like that. Remember what he told Abraham to do? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Abe fucked up. He was *supposed* to tell God, "I'm not going to kill my kid, you nuts or something?" |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. Ikonoklast |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. There are many in this country religiously insane. |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Ikonoklast |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. People forget that here. |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:44 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. Ikonoklast |
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Drew Richards (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
30. It means they failed god and should kill themselves for the good of the nation |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. I'd say both. The God they claim to worship isn't the God I learned about in Catholic school. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. God put Heidi Harris on Earth to test your patience. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:22 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. The 'If a man shall not work neither shall he eat' quote is from the NT but not the Gospels |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
34. God is such a prankster |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Well, he did give Donald Trump that ridiculous hair. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. From their point of view, it probably means that the voters are sinners and will go to Hell. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. I think I found a pic of the Tory candidate taken at the church picnic. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
42. God says "PSYCH!" |
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Major Nikon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
43. I've had conversations like these with religious fanatics and gotten the standard answer |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
48. Too bad that can't fit on a bumper sticker! |
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