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Originally Posted by Mightyfire89
Sigh. I will never believe someone who believes in some kind of god possesses any ability to think critically and realistically. Please stop. You continue to out yourselves as brainwashed automatons of your particular religion. Stop it. I think this whole sidebar was started by Reaper who I happen to agree with. He's correct in his assertion that religion is responsible for an incredible amount of needless pain and suffering in the history of the world.
These kids who were involved in this incident are products of their upbringing and are now deluded to the point that they think it's somehow god's will that they survived, but their friends died. What kind of nonsense is that?! What good can come of it? They're comforted by their concept of Jesus and god? I do not get it.
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Creator and maintainer of the universe is a perfectly reasonable thing to believe in, even if you reject the idea that such a god has intervenes in individual lives. god != religion.
Personally I find the concept of god irrelevant without religion, but it wasn't that long ago that deism was the common position for educated and enlightented people to hold.