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Originally Posted by GGG
I'm not moving the goalposts. Go read my first post. I certainly haven't argued for the existence of a deity here. I have simply argued that their faith has helped them to cope and therefore provided benefit. To which you compared them to opiate addicts.
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I never said that their faith didn't help them cope. I get that some people cope using religion. I never once questioned whether or not their faith helps them. I also didn't "compare them to opiate addicts." I used an extreme example of how people can use ways to modify their internal feelings that are based on faulty ideas. My apologies if I put the dots too far apart.
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Originally Posted by GGG
So your criticism of them thanking god is basically criticizing them for the type of psychological intervention they chose. A psychological intervention that works. And like the support animals it's not the animal that is providing the support but a psychological/physiological reaction to the animal.
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My criticism of them thanking a higher power is because it's a false premise. The EMTs and first responders that attended to the survivors are responsible for saving those kids. Give them the proper credit.
If a god was really on the job to save people from harm you'd think that he/she/whatever would have kept those kids from dying or the one from losing his eye. So, either the premise of thanking god for saving those kids is false because the other ones died or the concept of divine intervention is. If god saves people from death then he/she/whatever lets people die. If that is the case then maybe don't intimate that he/she/it wanted your kid to live while the other two died.
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Originally Posted by GGG
What you are doing is essentially going around to funerals and telling people there loved ones aren't in a better place.
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Holy over-the-top comparison. You realize this is a discussion board, right? I don't picket funerals or tell people that their relatives are just dead when they bring up an afterlife. I'm not ringing up the parents of the dead kids and correcting them. On the same token, if someone would have told me that when my Dad died that he was "in a better place" I probably would have laid them out. Get out of my kitchen with that spoiled food.
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Originally Posted by GGG
While this may be technically correct you aren't allowing people to cope in their own way.
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Technically correct is the best kind of correct and I am allowing people to cope in their own way. I think the premise is faulty and that humanity would be much better off if everyone realized that this life is the only one we have and to not hold out for some better life that there is no proof of.