Let the people of Orlando, Florida know that.
You are pretending that prayer was the cause of the Orlando shooting, but you know it was not.
There are millions of people in the Orlando area who pray to God and will never have even a glimmer of thought about shooting people. I don't know much about the situation but from what I've heard the shooter was more devoted to ISIS and violence than to "God".
What you are doing is expressing your own prejudice against religion and not taking a true, realistic look at it. Not only are you ignoring the millions (billions really) of people on earth who are religious and not violent. You are also ignoring the many violent people who have no connection to God.
You are making a false connection of religion and violence to express your own bias. Personally, it seems clear to me that a person will end up being violent regardless of how religious they are. It is something within them that is separate from religion.
He made each day possible by using his reasoning tools and his instinct for survival. Not by praying god would catch the fish for him or turning salt water into drinking water.
You are ignoring the story which was told by Martel and Ang Lee in the movie and making up your own story.
It seems you continue to ignore that Pi (the vegetarian) survived more from eating human bodies, including his own mother's body, than catching fish. That was the true horror that Pi could not openly face and needed the Tiger, Richard Parker, for. (have you looked up the origin of the name "Richard Parker"?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30093/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidenceThat's where we totally disagree and the reason for some much antagonism between believers and non-believers. I don't get to decide the Sun will not set tonight and will not rise tomorrow.
You have thought about life. But not to its full conclusion. You are not recognizing that the sun does not "set". It just appears to "set" because you live on a spinning globe called earth. The sun doesn't go anywhere. The sun "setting" is just an optical illusion.
This is true of EVERYTHING YOU KNOW. Do you accept what I said about the sunset being an optical illusion? Why do you accept that? You accept that because of stuff you read in books and stuff you learned in school involving some painted metal balls. It could all be B.S. You have know way to know the true nature of the sun. You just have to rely on what you see and what you've been taught. All of which is questionable.
If you refuse to question what you can see and think, then you are doing the same thing that religious people do. You are relying on faith in something rather than doubting everything, which is the only rational approach to life. there is no difference between believing in God or believing in Math and Science. They are all products of our fallible human brains.
Denial does not create gods. Any mother or father, in a second, would do WHATEVER they could to keep their child alive in a situation like that.
Exactly. So after a parent has done every earthly thing to keep their child safe, why should they stop there? Why not pray to God for the safety of their child also? It doesn't hurt. It doesn't cost anything. And it might help. Your refusal to pray could be seen as being stingy. A lack of full effort.
Of course you have your own reasons for not praying. I do not pray or believe in God myself. The difference between us is that I recognize the things I base my life on- my perceptions, my education- these are no more "universal truth" than God is. Math and science make sense to me. But they don't make sense to most of the world. Why should I try to force the whole world to believe what I believe? Let them build their own worldview. One which works for them. I build one which works for me. You should build one which works for you.
Your story works for you but is it no more "truth" than God or the Koran or Buddha.
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You forgot to add it is no more truth than what is presented by Zeus, the Sun god and beelzebub.
I didn't forget anything. There are far more gods and monsters and holy men in the history of the world than that.
Zeus worked for people in the time of Ancient Greece. Amon Ra and Satan also have their place and time. Jesus, Mohammed the same. Come back in 10,000 years and those gods will have been replaced. A God lasts as long as they work for people. Then they are dropped. But you can't force a god to be dropped while they are still working for people.
What you are not grasping is that math and science will, at some point, become obsolete also. In 100,000 years what we know as math and science will seem as silly as Zeus and Thor seem to us. You are just a moment in time. Stop pretending you and your worldview are immortal and god-like. Do your best to form a good worldview now and run with it. Make the best life for yourself that you can. Stop trying to control the world. You can't do it. Instead focus controlling your own life. That's something you CAN do.
Being bitter about what others believe is not the way to a happy life, I'm afraid. Impossible tasks never bring happiness. Stop and think about your life. What do you REALLY hope to accomplish in the few years which have been given to you?
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