{"id":96187,"date":"2012-09-12T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96187\/september-12-2001\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:27:25","slug":"september-12-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96187\/september-12-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"September 12, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"

up until that day I had wrestled with the existence of a Supreme Being, specifically the one called God…since that day, I assumed there was no such thing…the hijackers seemed to think THEY were doing God’s work…the people who killed a Doctor (because he performed abortions) apparently assumed THEY were doing God’s work…Now, right off the bat, one of their Ten Commandments is THOU SHALL NOT KILL…it doesn’t say “except for doctors who perform abortions”…I have no idea if Hitler felt that HE was doing God’s work when he carried out the extermination of six million Jews, for all *I* know Hitler may have been an atheist too…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

I’m not an English major, but I think “good” and “evil” are adjectives, and as far as *I* can tell ANY adjective is subjective…like “loud”, or “smooth” or “funny” or “cold”…By that reasoning the 9\/11 hijackers likely assumed they were doing “good” against the “evil” Americans…why they feel the way they did is a mystery to me…and of course it’s still going on…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

one of the conditions (for lack of a better word) of being an Atheist is there’s no one to blame for the bad stuff that happens to ya…and there’s no one to thank for the good stuff…[Stuff] Happens, it really could be as simple as that…Don’t point to the sky and tell me that’s God’s work–that’s just the atmosphere surrounding our Planet…Don’t point to that bird singing in that tree, that bird is the offspring of a bird that is the offspring of a bird which is the offspring of a bird, etc., ad infinitum back millions of years…in other words–SCIENCE…and if there is\/was a Supreme Being, why would He (she\/it) NEED a “middleman” like Jesus for instance…*I* just wanna talk to the Manager, not the assistant Manager…Because the more an idea is repeated and\/or interpreted (through dozens of centuries) the more it gets “modified” until it no longer resembles the original idea…I believe abortion (to cite just the most obvious example) didn’t exist in “Biblical” times…so how could “the Manager” have an opinion on it…
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If you want to believe in a mythical deity and all the man-made stories surrounding it, I won’t stop you…But if I’m willing to respect your right to believe, you should respect my right NOT to believe…I also DEMAND the right to be wrong…but I don’t think I am…I’ve said before that I’m not a courageous man…and for that reason, I didn’t put this on the OTHER FB…but it COULD happen–just don’t hold yer breath…
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up until that day I had wrestled with the existence of a Supreme Being, specifically the one called God…since that day, I assumed there was no such thing…the hijackers seemed to think THEY were doing God’s work…the people who killed a Doctor (because he performed abortions) apparently assumed THEY were doing God’s work…Now, right off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}