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  • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

    Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
    More than 70 years ago, Danny Thomas, then a struggling young entertainer with a baby on the way, visited a Detroit church and was so moved during the Mass, he placed his last $7 in the collection box. When he realized what he’d done, Danny prayed for a way to pay the looming hospital bills. The next day, he was offered a small part that would pay 10 times the amount he’d given to the church.

    Two years later, Danny had achieved moderate acting success in Detroit, but he was struggling to take his career to the next level. Once again, he turned to the church. Praying to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, Danny asked the saint to “help me find my way in life, and I will build you a shrine.” His career took a turn for the better, and soon he moved his family to Chicago to pursue career offers. A few years later, at another turning point in his life, Danny visited a church and remembered his pledge to St. Jude. Again he prayed to St. Jude and repeated his pledge to build a shrine to the saint if he would show him the way. In the years that followed, Danny's career flourished through films and television, and he became an internationally known entertainer. He remembered his pledge to build a shrine to St. Jude.
    Correlation does not prove causation. Plus, I find it just a bit convenient that his prayer was "answered" the very next day.

    It's wonderful that he built the hospital though.

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      Stated causes don't matter to their outcomes? Sure, go with that.
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        Buffet, Soros and bill gates are three of the biggest philanthropists in the world and all three are agnostic or atheist.
        Bills wife goes to Catholic Church, I would see her there before my family decided to stop going to church.

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        • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

          Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
          Stated causes don't matter to their outcomes? Sure, go with that.
          Um. Not when it's magic.
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            "6 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

            2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Matthew 6:1-3, NIV

            No one is saying don't do any good. I'm going into social work, I know. What is so hard about giving in secret? What is so hard about letting your acts speak for themselves?

            I volunteer at Out On the Lakeshore, Holland (MI) LGBT Resource Center. But when I say that, I don't scream "HEY, LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! AREN'T I AWESOME?"
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            • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

              Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
              No one is saying don't do any good. I'm going into social work, I know. What is so hard about giving in secret? What is so hard about letting your acts speak for themselves?

              I volunteer at Out On the Lakeshore, Holland (MI) LGBT Resource Center. But when I say that, I don't scream "HEY, LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! AREN'T I AWESOME?"
              Great and I agree. Although I can't remember the last time I talked about how great I am for my volunteering.

              My point is that I don't think its bad to be the only one to provide positive examples of other people's faith - on a thread about faith.
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              • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

                Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                My point is that I don't think its bad to be the only one to provide positive examples of other people's faith - on a thread about faith.


                Once again... slowly... nobody objects to positive examples of faith. If you do nice things because you believe My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is real, that's great.

                The only time you get into trouble is when you use words like "only " or "better." Then you're just being a turd.

                Do good. Don't be a turd. You're 1x2 so far. So close...
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                  Not responding to any specific post...but happy to answer good questions and have constructive dialog. Done responding to trolling.
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                    What if it's in regards to a post about trolling while you have a line in the water? Which is better, a Johnson or a Mastercraft?
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                    • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

                      Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                      What if it's in regards to a post about trolling while you have a line in the water? Which is better, a Johnson or a Mastercraft?
                      Will make an exception for this post.
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                      • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

                        Palm Sunday: Where Jesus plays the God card so he can ride a donkey.
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                        • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

                          "No Religion" overtakes "Evangelical" as a plurality of the US population.
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                          • Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer

                            Kepler needs to realize that if it wasn’t for religion, and their promise of the meek and poor fitting through the eye of a needle at heavens gate, that Kepler, and mookie, would be quartered by all the poor saps on earth as they both make 1000x the wages of sorry saps (and rover and Scooby make 10,000x).
                            Mookie thanks the heavens for God every day as he lives amongst the poorest of the poor who wipe up poo off middle eastern toilet floors who no doubt would prefer to take a shovel to mookie’s head....even though mookie is the kindest soul in the world to them and acknowledges their very existence every day.

                            THAT is why man created religion.
                            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                              I'm quite aware, mookie.

                              I do not see in religion the mystery of the incarnation so much as the mystery of the social order. It introduces into the thought of heaven an idea of equalization, which saves the rich from being massacred by the poor.

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                                Wow, that's a great quote.

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