....turns out it's all my fault

...i much apologies ...i have been lax in my duty to pray
...let me explain ...when the chilean miners were rescued i expressed my frustration that people were thanking god saying that if i had been one of the clever engineers who had helped saved them i'd be pretty annoyed that god was getting all the credit ...why didn't god intervene sooner so they didn't have to go through it all etc etc etc....
...now when the recent mining disaster occurred i suggested that the christians should get praying suggesting they could have 48 hours to get god to intervene before we sent in the rescue teams ....suggesting maybe we didn't wait 'cos we could just get on with it now without waiting for god so as not to waste time...
...now i've not seen the news but i'm assuming things have not worked out well as carl is telling me that its very sad and may have been different had someone prayed ...the insinuation being that if i'd prayed it would have been fine.... well as you can imagine this required a response. i suggested that if god existed he could have intervened or that if he existed and had chosen not to intervene then he wasn't a nice god ...or there wasn't a god. he suggested i was blaming god ...that when it went well i wanted to praise the men (sic) and when it went wrong i wanted to blame god. i pointed out that as i didn't believe in god i couldn't be blaming him/her. on the contrary the "fault" was probably natural disaster or human error.
....the problem is that the accusation he levied, that i was blaming god, works the other way as well... when it works out well god is praised, when it goes wrong no one blames god or worse say it must have been god's will ...what!! that people die or are hurt (again, we're back to the not very nice god position)
...and then it struck me... was carl suggesting that because i hadn't prayed god was teaching me a bloody good lesson by letting these people die ...."that's that bloody mordue sorted ...if he doesn't pray i'm not going to do anything"... well that makes me bloody powerful doesn't it ...i decide not to pray, god decides not to act...
....like most christian arguments (if not all) it doesn't add up - it doesn't make sense ...it's nonsense
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