Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:19:47 -0800, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

Kelly Greene wrote:
"Bill Graham" wrote in message
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I have been an atheist all of my life. Even when I was a
pre-schooler, when I went to church, and saw the others praying, I
would ask, "Who ar they talking to?" and when they said, "God", I
knew that there was no such thing and they were fooling themselves,
or kidding, or wasting their time. Now, I tell the religious people
who pester me to become a believer, that its a good thing I don't
believe in their God, because if I did, I would hate his guts for
all the pain and suffering he causes/allows to the millions of
little furry creatures he freezes and starves to death every
Winter.

Amen brother Bill. I feel the exact same way. I had a friend who
always said, "Nothing fails like prayer." Somewhere along the line
I lost my faith and belief in the Christian/Jewish God. I believe
it happened slowly as I matured and saw and learned what went on in
the world. Where was/is this God when people and animals needed
him/it most? Nowhere to be found. When millions of people starve
to death and/or die of disease, my believer friends would say,
"It's part of God's plan." Their God plans these horrific deaths?
God planned the AIDS virus, the Bubonic plague and all the wars
since time began? What kind of God would do that or look the other
way and let such
things continue?
As for the animals... God has and shows no mercy for them or he
would do something. People torture and kill them with impunity
(crush videos are the worst) and this God does nothing! Of what
use is this God? You can fervently pray for 2 people with cancer.
One will live and the other will die. I just don't get it.

There may be some kind of intelligent life out there in the
universe, maybe it even created the Big Bang... but it sure as heck
was no compassionate, loving, all-caring, all knowing God the
believers talk about.

The operative phrase in the above is, "Of what use is this God?"
Obviously, he has no use at all. Even if he exists, he is an
illogical dunce, and not worthy of any reguard at all, much less our
worship. A typewriter, thrown froim the roof of a 100 story
skyscraper has just as much chance of hitting a child on the
sidewalk below as it does of hitting a trash can. Only the
percentage of the sidewalk's surface occluded by both enters into
the equasion. In over two thousand years no God has had any effect
on the affairs of man or beast at all, even if one were to believe
in the Christian myth. So, if he has no effect, then why bother with
him? Surely we have more important things to concern ourselves with.
(Like taking care of a few feral cats.)

An old adage says never argue about politics and religion; somehow, we
can't help it. Taking care of feral cats is part of God's plan -
preserving or attempting to preserve the sanctity of life:

Matthew 25:40:

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Another thing: You have to define what you are denying. What do you
mean by "God"? I've already told you what my conception is.

Some of us believe that God appears to us in this. I didn't bother
reading the notes at the very beginning before I listened to it and
watched this amazing woman (watch her feet). The notes are spot-on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oCX9woz9U

You may say that it's only a woman playing the organ. Well, that's
just the point: Quod erat demonstrandum.

Remarkable. But this one p[lays in spite of the fact that God took away her
fingers.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2Aq0sEf88