I thought it was the catholics and not the Orthos that were devoted to the Virgin Mary.
Catholics are especially, but Orthodox are too. They don’t pray the Rosary like Catholics do, or believe in the Immaculate Conception, but they have a general devotion to her, much more than Protestants.
The god is a weirdo. He's worse than Trump. God spends time helping runners but not little kids starving. What a weirdo God is.
We should get him. We should get God. Honestly if we all combine our strength we can overpower God, like the way 100 little kids can overpower one big guy.
Seriously God is going down after school.
I'm with you free. 3 o-clock. Time for God to get what's coming to him
This the primary evidence for there being no real God. The fact nobody really thinks it gives you any advantage in life to pray to God.
If people really believed in it they'd ban praying and have WADA style org set up to make sure athlete's aren't engaging in brown nosing The GOAT of the universe. Letsrun would have a Coevett style commenter who's always accusing God botherer countries of cheating behind closed doors. Carrying bibles around with them, and doing that cross thing on their chest.
Saying that, the abstract word God does point to something that is real. That REALITY is king and you can kid yourself in life all you want, but at some point you are going to faceplant and there's nothing you can do about it. Also, hell would be something like a life squandered but then realizing too late that it was wasted, and then not being able to let go as the darkness envelopes you. In this moment it will FEEL LIKE HELL! As opposed to the man who lives the right life and as the darkness comes there is peace in his mind at what he did, and who he was.
Is there any chance that Hocker just meant it in some sort of abstract way? Not everyone thinks of God as a magical, white-haired man with a white robe and a long beard who can do miracles like a big monotheistic Zeus. Maybe he just thinks of "God" as something powerful but less concrete?
What if "God" was just a word people used to describe all the wonderful and ineffable forces of the universe? Or the countless and powerful union of a billion unpredictable choices and forces in our lives? God, to some philosophers, is just the manifestation of all the laws of the universe - immutable as they are - in our lives, not a magic human on a golden throne in the clouds like Zeus (which is how kids think of God).
The downside of this version of God is that "he" isn't a person, so "he" is hard to relate to. And he doesn't make choices for or against us. The universe is set in motion and follows these unchanging laws of nature. That's God to some people.
God is just a lot easier to say than, "All the events of the last 20 years and the laws of physics and chemistry and psychology came together to carry me across the line."
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I notice that many here are hurling insults at Cole Hocker for believing in God. Would you do the same if a Muslim attributed his win to Allah?
Many polite people are reluctant to poke fun at other people's God(s). Whereas people are more comfortable commenting on their own culture and their own community.
I am also more likely to be openly critical of bad choices my friends & family are making (I'd try to stop a friend from making a bad choice) but I wouldn't go up to a stranger and tell them how to live their lives.
That is why we are more openly critical of "our own" people and less towards people from other cultures.
Again, I beg people to read some basic Thomas Aquinas, it would really clear out all these stupid ideas, considered intelligent to dim 14-year-olds who just opened a Reddit account, that God is a “white-bearded sky daddy” or whatever. Analogy vs. univocity, primary vs secondary causation, etc.
The god is a weirdo. He's worse than Trump. God spends time helping runners but not little kids starving. What a weirdo God is.
We should get him. We should get God. Honestly if we all combine our strength we can overpower God, like the way 100 little kids can overpower one big guy.
Seriously God is going down after school.
That's been tried. The crucifiers went home devastated!
Religion is silly, but as long as someone uses their religion for good or at least for neutral purposes, fine by me...believe what you want.
I'm interested in him as a track athlete, and could not care less about his views really on anything outside the sport.
That's why he's an Olympic Champion and you're living at home with your mommy and daddy saying, "Religion is silly", and yes, it may be "silly" to you but not to him. Seems like it worked pretty well for him.
God will also carry sidney over the already low hurdles. Hopefully the usa stays religious or they would surely lose against china
I assume you are just joking around but here's a question of "God logic" for you:
If there is some cosmic battle between good and Evil (which is what religious people believe), and if there is a coming war between China and the US (which is what you are implying), then why would God favor China (a largely atheist nation) over the USA (which is still the most religious of the Western nations)?
Even if we were half as religious as we are now, we would still be more way more religious than China. So wouldn't God still have to "be on our side" using your logic?
The Old Testament explains how God's people experience misfortune. God saved his people and protected them, but they frequently turned away from Him and His Commandments. The result was war and/or various calamities. When they returned to Him and were contrite, they were forgiven and blessed. The cycle continues.
The steeplechase guy is a religious nutter butter too isn't he?
Makes it more likely that they're up to something sketchy to me. People who have to announce their religiousness publicly all the time are very likely to be up to no good.