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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Me neither. I was responding to that one rationale of "why god lets bad things happen".
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Yeah it's pretty crazy reasoning but misfortune can turn a person's mind to pondering life for a while. I saw the beginning of, I think, a Burt Reynolds movie where his boat has sunk and he starts making all these promises to god if he lets him live and if he is able to swim to shore. Of course being a fine movie he makes it and slowly his resolve to keep his promises wanes. I lost interest after about ten minutes but I think I react much the same way and probably most people do as well but it doesn't last. I think god is a little above this method and does better with his manna or nectar. Threats of fire and damnation or on the other hand, so called miracles, don't really mean much to me and I think are an invention of man.