God Sends Tiger Shark To Bite Girls' Arm Off

[WildCat]

From here: (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/22/surfer.shark.ap/index.html)
"I can't change it," she said. "That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it."
What a merciful god! After all, he could have had the shark bite her head off. Gods get their kicks in mysterious ways, like Nazi doctors. :rolleyes:

[Yahweh]

Hmmmm....

I wonder if she can look burn or cancer victim in the face and say "Its all God's plan and you'll just have to live with it"...

[Graham]

Originally posted by Yahweh
Hmmmm....

I wonder if she can look burn or cancer victim in the face and say "Its all God's plan and you'll just have to live with it"...

Everything is god's plan. dontcha know?

How much does Jesus love the little children? (http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=www.valleyskeptic.com/child_cancerlow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.valleyskeptic.com/jesus_children.html&h=198&w=310&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcancer%2Bvictim%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3De n%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG)

This site has an all-time, classic slogan:

"It's your god, they're your rules - you go to hell"

Graham

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by WildCat
From here: (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/22/surfer.shark.ap/index.html)

What a merciful god! After all, he could have had the shark bite her head off. Gods get their kicks in mysterious ways, like Nazi doctors. :rolleyes:

Not without precedent.

The prophet Elisha summoned two she-bears (http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=2KGS%2B2&showfn=on&showxref=on&language=english&version=KJV&x=18&y=10) to discipline forty-two of the little damn brats.

This is my favorite part of the Bible. Every time I hear some squalling brat disturb me while dining in a restaurant, I wish the Bible were true. :D

[UnrepentantSinner]

"I can't change it," she said. "That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it."

I didn't know she was Muslim? I've seen very few more concise expressions of Kismet or Insallah before.

Am I the only one more disturbed by the fact that a 13 year old girl is a semi-professional surfer? It sucks that she lost her arm and all that and I don't know how I as a 35 year old man could deal with it, but I'm much more bothered by the fact that she has sponsors than by her pluck in light of her dumb luck (apparently).

[crocodile deathroll]

That was a very religious shark that attacked her because it preys freqently:D.
I just happen the be a very religious crocodile you know who also preys to digest little fish.

[pupdog]

You realize, of course, that we live in the best of all possible worlds. Everything is for the best. What is written, is written.

[WildCat]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
Am I the only one more disturbed by the fact that a 13 year old girl is a semi-professional surfer? It sucks that she lost her arm and all that and I don't know how I as a 35 year old man could deal with it, but I'm much more bothered by the fact that she has sponsors than by her pluck in light of her dumb luck (apparently).
It's just the nature of girls, they peak athletically in their teens. Then that hip-widening thing kicks in (not that I mind that!). By the time she's 21 she may be washed up. Know of many 21 yo female gymnasts?

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by WildCat

It's just the nature of girls, they peak athletically in their teens. Then that hip-widening thing kicks in (not that I mind that!). By the time she's 21 she may be washed up. Know of many 21 yo female gymnasts?
That might depend on the sport. I imagine a low center of gravity might help in surfing.

[crocodile deathroll]

It strikes me as odd that the is a tornado hits as they often do in the Southern bible belt; it is not unusual for one town in the following Sunday the paster preaches his congregation that this is evidence of the power of prayer god for sparing the population from destruction, so prayer works and god "really does exist".


But the another town that tornado was diverted right into, states their town must be special because God special plan for them. So again God "must exist"
The same argument the young surfer uses. BTW I certainly very much sympathise with her. I would of been very P***ed of with god if that happed to me at that age.
http://images.usatoday.com/weather/news/2000/photos/fortworth/church.jpg (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2000/wftwphotos.htm)
Click on this image to view more of god's handywork

CDR

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by Graham

Everything is god's plan. dontcha know?

How much does Jesus love the little children? (http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=www.valleyskeptic.com/child_cancerlow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.valleyskeptic.com/jesus_children.html&h=198&w=310&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcancer%2Bvictim%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3De n%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG)

This site has an all-time, classic slogan:

"It's your god, they're your rules - you go to hell"

Graham

Which is really interesting, because its an atheist site (or an atheist site hiding behind the veil of a open-minded skeptic site. Heh, the page has at least 14 icons with of strike through a cross.), and since atheists believe no God exists, all of those things done to the children are ultimately due to the materialistic universe the atheists praise.

I see it more as a childish attempt at strong atheist rhetoric than any intelligent critique of Christianity. It is more of a feeble emotional rant on Christianity than a focused thesis on religion, which is what is should be for a truly open-minded skeptical discussion.

Work harder and try again.

[The Don]

Originally posted by T'ai Chi


Which is really interesting, because its an atheist site (or an atheist site hiding behind the veil of a open-minded skeptic site. Heh, the page has at least 14 icons with of strike through a cross.), and since atheists believe no God exists, all of those things done to the children are ultimately due to the materialistic universe the atheists praise.

Absolutely, but at no point in time would an atheist claim that anything happened because of some mysterious force's will for it to happen. Bad stuff happens in the materialistic universe because stuff happens in the materialistic universe.


Originally posted by T'ai Chi

I see it more as a childish attempt at strong atheist rhetoric than any intelligent critique of Christianity. It is more of a feeble emotional rant on Christianity than a focused thesis on religion, which is what is should be for a truly open-minded skeptical discussion.

Work harder and try again.

Any attempt to debate with a committed theist will eventually end up with one of the following:

- Well prove that God doesn't exist
- Well if there isn't a God how did things (like universal constants) turn out just right

For which the standard answers are:

- Cant prove a negative
- Because we wouldn't be here to worry about it if they weren't

[Graham]

Originally posted by T'ai Chi Which is really interesting, because its an atheist site (or an atheist site hiding behind the veil of a open-minded skeptic site. Heh, the page has at least 14 icons with of strike through a cross.), and since atheists believe no God exists, all of those things done to the children are ultimately due to the materialistic universe the atheists praise.

Not that rubbish again. T'ai Chi, I invite you to demonstrate how a material universe (with no conscious thought or decision making process) can be said to be doing anything to anybody.

What do you mean the materialistic universe atheists "praise"? Why would anyone praise a materialistic universe? What would be the point? Whether you did or didn't, the universe would be the same anyway.

What I think you are trying to suggest is the old fallacy "Well, it's much nicer to believe in a universe with God than without".

In response to that, I would again point out that your belief or or my belief or the lack thereof makes absolutely not the slightedst difference to the universe at all save that it contains one more (or less) deluded person than would otherwise be the case.


I see it more as a childish attempt at strong atheist rhetoric than any intelligent critique of Christianity. It is more of a feeble emotional rant on Christianity than a focused thesis on religion, which is what is should be for a truly open-minded skeptical discussion.

The website was a bit lame but vaguely appropriate, I thought. Maybe they wanted a website that was an emotional rant - shrug - who died and made you god (if you'll pardon the pun) that you're telling everyone what their websites should be?

Work harder and try again.

Bite me.

Graham