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Florida plane crash survivor: 'God is good'
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who are you trying to impress with the sarcasm?
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Seems pretty dangerous to be putting black hole engines on planes.
DeaconKnowledge
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Harping on things like this is the kind of thing that give atheists a rep for being douches.
but she didn't... had she said "thank god I was spared" Id say -yea I hear ya. (I just replace god with luck, in my mind, and move on)
But she proclaimed a sweeping generalization to "raise god up" even though he had only batted .250 on the moment.
Pinko Marx
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The sentiment I'm following is that people are on her case for thanking God that she lived, yet 3 others died.
PataHikari
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The same person you're trying to impress with your middle school smug atheist act.
Yourself.
travisbickle
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"on her case" - people are making a few jokes on the internet about someone who thinks a supernatural being spoke to her just before the accident.
jediyoshi
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You forgot to explain what's being contradicted there
-Being helped through the crash
-Being happy that others died
-Saying condolences
You had 3 whole choices
I actually posted my opinion without resorting to ad hominem, but you dont seem to know any better so ill just tell you that it doesn't make your case any stronger.
im sure shes an avid reader of offtopic neogaf and is deeply offended
PataHikari
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Which is a rather cruel thing to do.
I'd love to see people go up to her face and say this. If you're going to say such nasty things about people, say it to their faces
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Pinko Marx
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But no jokes have been made. Posters have being calling her selfish and saying that shes dumb for thanking God that she survived, even though 3 others died.
You may feel one way or another about religion, whatever, but how a woman thanking her deity for surviving a traumatic event terrible or anything new?
Well I'd at least wait until god fixes the hole in her house.
Dark Stalkers
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God sure does work in mysterious ways.
PataHikari
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OOOOOHHHH HE USED A FALLACY!
I'm mocking you because you deserve to be mocked. You are a child, acting smug and self righteous from your chair, not having suffered from anything. Denouncing this woman in some pathetic pseudo-anger.
Ploid 3.0
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She was describing how she somehow survived with the God is good comment. So maybe she was asked about her experience and how she survived. A question that focused on her, in context that would have been the same as saying "thank god I was spared."
OttomanScribe
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Yes, how insensitive for her to use a tragedy as a platform for her views on religion...
DeaconKnowledge
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Probably not, but atheists sure are when people call their behavior douchy.
I'm not sure about the person you're arguing with, but I don't denounce the woman, I denounce the praising of fictional characters. I'm glad she survived.
its almost like you're trying to prove me right
The only person who's coming off looking smug is you.
jediyoshi
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Then you left out the part where you're not actually making a case against anything anyone is saying. You don't need to see this series of events in its religious context to point out its irony.
PataHikari
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Pinko Marx
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ah, forget it.
isnt calling people douchey, douchey in itself?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Heh. Those idiots and their sky wizards.
This is a really bad idea
That same god dropped the ball with respect to the plane crash victims. That's why. It's the classical test of omnipotence. If you can save one, why not save all? If they don't, they are either incompetent or nasty.
Not when the people in question are acting douchey.
PataHikari
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Nothing. Its stupid sure but its a completely natural reaction for religious people.
jediyoshi
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You're begging that question so hard, it just wants to be left alone
maybe they were gay
so its ok to insult people because they see the irony in her remarks?
bizarre
ill take your word for it
Pinko Marx
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So should she be damning God? I don't get it.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Bail out while you still can Pata.
yes and it's they way it's used that makes us ridicule.
again, if she thanked god for still being alive, yea we get it.
but to proclaim him GOOD when 3/4 DIED.
nonsense babbling
God created irony.
travisbickle
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She said God stopped her from moving, he intervened to save her life.
but God didn't tell the pilot to not fly a particular route.
If you havent noticed, majority of GAF is atheist.
edit: I should say atheist/agnostic. But ANYTHING against religion is loved here.
for crashing a plane into her house and killing 3 people? sure, why not
I mean its a negative event no matter how you view it
PataHikari
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Except that the flaw in this argument is that, if God does exist and rules over a world with an afterlife, then the people dying are simply moving on to the next life, which is generally presumed to be an improvement over this one. So God letting them die doesn't, in the long run, hurt them.
There's "atheist" and then there's "/r/atheism."
"Atheist" means you don't believe in God.
"/r/atheism" means you're a smug obnoxious prick.
then she should be upset that he didnt let her move to the next level!
man yells at cloud
Her comment was nonsensical, I don't consider pointing that out to be "douchy", especially when it's the article's headline. I'd call out a similar non-religious comment the same way.
No, but she's kind of expanding too much on it, saying "but other than that, I'm fine. I'm blessed. Truly, God was with me." was a bit too much considering that other people died in the same accident, maybe God wasn't with them?
I wouldn't call it callous if she just said "thank God I'm alive".
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I second this with all of my strength.
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