It is wonderful to see Fabrice Muamba up and about. The quick thinking of the emergency staff and the surgeon in the crowd appear to have saved this young man’s life in a most dramatic way.
However, I now see that he and his friends and manager are claiming that God stepped in to save his life. The supreme nonentity who, according to their beliefs, created the entire universe of hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars, happened to be watching Tottenham v Bolton on 16th March 2012 in North London. How wonderful that he performed his miracle to save Muamba’s life!
Now, what about Venkatesh who died during warm up at a game in India the previous day? Did God abandon him because he was not Christian? Was he making a point? “I’ll show them, I’ll let him die and save a Christian in a Spurs game at a Jewish club tomorrow!”
Then just eight days ago Piermario Morosini dies on the pitch while playing for Livorno in Italy. Mind you, he was a Catholic.
What is going through the minds of these people who claim God saved them? Do they not realise that the only people who claim that God saved them are people who are still alive?
Everyone who dies was not saved by God, whether it be people in the planes during 9/11 or caught in the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the earthquake in the Caribbean, the car crash on the A96, the baby in Ethiopia, the drowning hundreds on the Titanic. Why were their prayers unanswered? Don’t give me that guff that God needed them so took them for himself.
Are we supposed to think that God chose to save those in the lifeboats, high ground, in earthquake proof buildings etc.? Anyone who believes such crap really needs their brain testing!
Why would God rescue Muamba, but not Morosini or Venkatesh? Is this a loving all-powerful God? How can born-again bigots believe that a loving God would commit to everlasting damnation a Jewish, Islamic, Hindu or atheist individual just because they don’t accept that Jesus was his son? Get real. Can they not see how ridiculous that is? Even the flat Earth society have better theories.
Little by little, all the religious dogmas are gradually being shown to be wrong. Earth being the centre of the universe being one of the first. People had to die at the hand of so-called pious church leaders to get these idiotic beliefs overturned.
The other day someone told me that because the scientists can’t find enough dark matter around the sun (which shows how an unimportant Radio 4 news item distorts everything) it means scientists are probably wrong about everything. Scientists haven’t not found dark matter, they just have not found it locally and it does not mean they must be wrong about everything else.
One of my sisters believed that the world was only 5,000 years old and that all the fossils were put in the ground to make life interesting for us. She was an intelligent, clever woman, yet went to the eternity of nothingness believing such absolute nonsense.
There is no God, never was a God and hopefully, although we like to play God occasionally, we will never be Gods either. Once the whole world realises this then there might be some chance of peace.
One final note. Going to heaven after I die would be my idea of hell. No challenges, no competition, nothing to do except to be forced to praise a nonentity who, if he did exist, had made a dreadful mess of everything he ever touched! Hell indeed!
Oh, yes, and no beer either!
Tony, reading your angry ramblings leaves one a tad confused as to the deep seated hostility toward others stupidity in having a belief in a God who created the earth whether it be billions or millions of years ago. Belief is a huge part of many peoples lives as surely you would know, when for many years you believed there to be a prehistoric creature in the depths of Loch Ness. So much so that you uprooted and put your entire being into helping promote and discover this mythical creature. I can only imagine your frustration when those boring zoologists at the time clearly stated that it was impossible…….yet your faith and conviction helped motivate you to carry on in pursuit of your goal. The fact that your belief was unfounded is neither here nor there as it give you I would imagine some of the most exciting times of your life. If people wish to believe maybe we should respect their conviction rather than question their logic.
Yes it was frustrating and I did not enjoy discovering that I was wrong about much of what I thought the evidence portrayed. However, unlike the religious blind faith of many, I was prepared to accept reasoned argument and have changed my views
Those with blind faith will never change their views and it is that which is so sad. Believing the entire universe was created just for us demonstrates an ego of disproportionate dimensions. Then condemning every being in the universe who is not a believer in the nonsensical risen Christ to eternal damnation is just plain foolish. Christians are a minority and have only had such weight in the past owing to their colonies world wide where, using their Christian principles, they enslaved millions and robbed millions more.
Blind faith speaks for itself.
Well its obviously an emotional issue for you Tony as your outspoken and vitriolic views show. I wish I could be as sure in my convictions although your history on the Christian Church would appear to be slightly less comprehensive than Scottish medieval history. Ego’s go hand in hand with outspoken beliefs and views from poor service to self praise. I am happy to agree to disagree
Ah, perhaps, but I am prepared to be open minded. I had to accept that I got things wrong in the eighties on Loch Ness and perhaps still have some wrong. However, when someone tells me that the universe was created for some of the residents of this one unimportant ball of mud, and do so on nothing more than blind faith, then my respect for them goes. If God could not hear the prayers of the people in the second world trade center tower and save them then what sort of God is he? Sorry, not someone for whom I could ever have a kind word.
The old testament is full of horror and the new testament is contradictory throughout.
If God exists, he knows how to get my attention, but I won’t be blackmailed into believing in him because of threats. If that is the type of God he is – “Believe in me or go to hell” – then I don’t ever want to know him – real or not!