Newtown Church Evacuated

Sunday, Dec 16, 2012

A noon mass was being held at St. Rose of Lima Church

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Newtown-Church-Evactuated-183704271.html

Dear God,
Why do you allow so many priests to sexually abuse children in your churches and schools?
Signed,
A Concerned Child

Dear Concerned Child,
Because I don't exist.
Signed,
Your imaginary friend, God.



This was posted by a friend when that meme popped up on his facebook page.

So he's obviously asleep on the job.

Impotent in the face of the school board.

If there is a 'god', the truth is that an all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful 'god' either could not stop this, allowed it to happen or directly caused it.

In either case, certainly NOT a god worth worshiping.

Is God that weak that mere mortals can keep him out of schools ... or any place for that matter?

If I'm not mistaken, God is allowed in the classrooms there.

pure and simple.

For an omnipotent, omniscient being, this god sure seems pretty weak.

Or perhaps their god is a petty, vindictive piece of shit that gets mad if it doesn't hear its name all day, every day, so it then allows these things. That's what they're really saying.

Besides, what about shootings and bombings at churches? What about tornados and hurricanes in the most religious areas of the country?

Huckabee Says Connecticut School Massacre Occurred Because We ‘Removed God From Our Schools’

By Igor Volsky

HUCKABEE: Well, you know, it’s an interesting thing. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a palce where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability? That we’re not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand before a Holy God in judgment. If we don’t believe that, then we don’t fear that.

Watch it:





http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/14/1339971/huckabee-says-connecticut-school-massacre-occurred-because-we-removed-god-from-our-schools/?mobile=nc

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021998638 posted by riqster


Thought for Your Sunday: If God is Omnipotent…

December 16, 2012 //0then He would not be barred from school buildings because of the quantity of teacher-led prayers therein: He would be there anyway.

And if God’s love lasts forever, He wouldn’t bail out on us because we failed to tattoo the Ten Commandments on the foreheads of each and every student: He would be there anyway.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky was raised to believe these things, and is sure most other People of the Book were as well. So when he sees stupid T-Shirts like this one:



The Cranky One gets even crankier. Because these people seem to think we mortals can order God about. Like, whaaaaaat? Plus, the shirt-makers did not capitalize “You”. Idiots.

We are not more powerful than God, and cannot “allow Him in schools”. Either God is omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal, or He isn’t. You can’t have it both ways.

Mr. B & C

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/thought-for-your-sunday-if-god-is-omnipotent/

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Unless it was Lactantius who misattributed it to Epicurus:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?