Is God a malevolent being?

[Grimlundt]

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[Nationalist State of Knox]

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[Tlaceceyaya]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=449881158406267&set=a.352867368107647.80532.352857924775258&type=1&theater

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It looks like it's the smallest possible resolution of an image from wikipedia.
It's not from wikipedia, though, so it looks like someone might have taken a blank map from there, coloured some parts in and put a legend on it.

[Sulamalik]

And views like this are why we can't have nice things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
Although non-specific concepts of madness have been around for several thousand years, the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers was the first to define the three main criteria for a belief to be considered delusional in his 1913 book General Psychopathology.[2] These criteria are:

certainty (held with absolute conviction)
incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)[3]
Furthermore, when a false belief involves a value judgment, it is only considered as a delusion if it is so extreme that it cannot be or ever can be proven true (example: a man claims that he flew into the sun and flew back home. This would be considered a delusion

I accept this definition. "God" tells you things with no voice, and you "pray" back to him. If I were too claim I believed in Bigfoots or Aliens, people would say i'n delusional. I say the same standard applies, except religion is like a contagion, with thousands and millions of people reinforcing the delusion. I defy you to do ONE MIRACLE . Bring someone who has been dead for three days back to life. Heal an AIDS patient by laying of hands, and have a doctor check him out. Short of that, your in the same categore as people that beleive in the Loch Noss Monster, or that watch Ancient Aliens on the History planet. You are suffering from a mental illness and as the definition says, it's incorrigble i.e "not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary. I am willing to believe in Gid, and God, that can do ONE MIRACLE. Are you willing to admit your madness and give up your belief on God if He dosen't perform a miracle? Shit talks and bullshit walks. I doubt your willing to change your beleif in God, even if I was to prove that God can't do miracles and it's nothing more than a form of madness you have. Put up or shut up.

If it makes you feel better, I wouldn't call you delusional if you believed in aliens.

[Farnhamia]

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It looks like it's the smallest possible resolution of an image from wikipedia.
It's not from wikipedia, though, so it looks like someone might have taken a blank map from there, coloured some parts in and put a legend on it.

Isn't that how you would make a map like that?

[Nationalist State of Knox]

wat

It looks like it's the smallest possible resolution of an image from wikipedia.
It's not from wikipedia, though, so it looks like someone might have taken a blank map from there, coloured some parts in and put a legend on it.

If Facebook link to moving rocks + low res map of countries in which atheists are persecuted = winning argument, then I guess I better quit this debate game while before someone posts some particularly large pieces of mobile amethyst.

[Farnhamia]

It looks like it's the smallest possible resolution of an image from wikipedia.
It's not from wikipedia, though, so it looks like someone might have taken a blank map from there, coloured some parts in and put a legend on it.

If Facebook link to moving rocks + low res map of countries in which atheists are persecuted = winning argument, then I guess I better quit this debate game while before someone posts some particularly large pieces of mobile amethyst.

The Racetrack Playa is pretty cool. Very, very slow, of course, but cool.

[Tlaceceyaya]

It looks like it's the smallest possible resolution of an image from wikipedia.
It's not from wikipedia, though, so it looks like someone might have taken a blank map from there, coloured some parts in and put a legend on it.

Isn't that how you would make a map like that?

But the maps on wikipedia don't usually have legends on the maps themselves, and a reverse image search showed that it wasn't from wikipedia.

[Amerandski]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
Although non-specific concepts of madness have been around for several thousand years, the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers was the first to define the three main criteria for a belief to be considered delusional in his 1913 book General Psychopathology.[2] These criteria are:

certainty (held with absolute conviction)
incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)[3]
Furthermore, when a false belief involves a value judgment, it is only considered as a delusion if it is so extreme that it cannot be or ever can be proven true (example: a man claims that he flew into the sun and flew back home. This would be considered a delusion

I accept this definition. "God" tells you things with no voice, and you "pray" back to him. If I were too claim I believed in Bigfoots or Aliens, people would say i'n delusional. I say the same standard applies, except religion is like a contagion, with thousands and millions of people reinforcing the delusion. I defy you to do ONE MIRACLE . Bring someone who has been dead for three days back to life. Heal an AIDS patient by laying of hands, and have a doctor check him out. Short of that, your in the same categore as people that beleive in the Loch Noss Monster, or that watch Ancient Aliens on the History planet. You are suffering from a mental illness and as the definition says, it's incorrigble i.e "not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary. I am willing to believe in Gid, and God, that can do ONE MIRACLE. Are you willing to admit your madness and give up your belief on God if He dosen't perform a miracle? Shit talks and bullshit walks. I doubt your willing to change your beleif in God, even if I was to prove that God can't do miracles and it's nothing more than a form of madness you have. Put up or shut up.

If it makes you feel better, I wouldn't call you delusional if you believed in aliens.

Put up or shut up. Either your God can do a miracle, or he can't. And if he can't , then he might as well not exist. So heres what I propose; I would confess it's a miracle if you could lay on hands or whatever, a quadriplegic and heal him. That means, he gets up and walks around. So, can you do it? Or are you going to admit it's a delusion, and you suffer from a mental illness? Do ir and prove that your God exists. Or admit that it is a delusion or a fairytale

[Faolinn]

Can you think of a species more deserving of anguish?

Do your parents do everything for you?
Would you like it someone dictated absolutely everything you did?
How about supposed mortal "perfection" that is stillness which leads to stagnation?
God is not malevolent.It merely chooses to let us follow our own will because it is wrong to oppress us, and if that means destroying ourselves, tough luck, it means we did something to deserve it.

[Mavorpen]

Can you think of a species more deserving of anguish?

Do your parents do everything for you?
Would you like it someone dictated absolutely everything you did?
How about supposed mortal "perfection" that is stillness which leads to stagnation?
God is not malevolent.It merely chooses to let us follow our own will because it is wrong to oppress us, and if that means destroying ourselves, tough luck, it means we did something to deserve it.

You're telling me if you walk into a busy street, your parents wouldn't try to help you because "you deserve it, fucker!"

What great, benevolent parents you have.

[Tel]

God has a sense of humor, despite all else that might be true about it. It invented irony, after all.

[The Franko-Gothic Empire]

God doesn't exist............

[Faolinn]

Can you think of a species more deserving of anguish?

Do your parents do everything for you?
Would you like it someone dictated absolutely everything you did?
How about supposed mortal "perfection" that is stillness which leads to stagnation?
God is not malevolent.It merely chooses to let us follow our own will because it is wrong to oppress us, and if that means destroying ourselves, tough luck, it means we did something to deserve it.

You're telling me if you walk into a busy street, your parents wouldn't try to help you because "you deserve it, fucker!"

What great, benevolent parents you have.

You fail so terrifyingly, disturbingly, miserably to understand.Your madness saddens me.But of course, you only like to see things on their skin.free will without being willing to face the consequences of all your actions whatever they may be is cowardice. One should try to help another because it prevents the consequence that perpetuates wickedness.Humans have their own personal divine capabilities, therefore, to so totally intrude on our lives would go against the perfect nature of God.

[Neo Arcad]

I was going to vote on that poll but I accidentally poni ponied the poni poni.

[Big Jim P]

God doesn't exist............

.........beyond the realms of fiction, fantasy and/or delusion.

[Chinese Regions]

God doesn't exist............

Neither does Dracula.

[Tlaceceyaya]

You're telling me if you walk into a busy street, your parents wouldn't try to help you because "you deserve it, fucker!"

What great, benevolent parents you have.

You fail so terrifyingly, disturbingly, miserably to understand.Your madness saddens me.But of course, you only like to see things on their skin.free will without being willing to face the consequences of all your actions whatever they may be is cowardice. One should try to help another because it prevents the consequence that perpetuates wickedness.Humans have their own personal divine capabilities, therefore, to so totally intrude on our lives would go against the perfect nature of God.

Why would a perfect, loving being create malaria?

[Dread Lady Nathicana]

And once again, opinions, which everyone has and few are willing to change, slide sideways into trolling, flaming, baiting, and other assorted nastiness all under the continued guise of "It's just my opinion/It's what I truly believe".

Seriously folks, knock it off. Save us some work, and everyone some headache, and learn how to express yourselves WITHOUT acting dickish to your fellow players.

That, in and of itself, regardless of who or what you might attribute it to, I would count as a miracle.