Do you have to say Tom Cruise seven times whilst looking in a mirror? Then Xenu will appear before you and suck out all your nasty engrams. Sure it's something like that.
Having that much faith in anything is admirable whether or not you believe in God.
I've never quite been able to get my head around this. When something bad happens i.e someone you know dies of cancer, its not gods doing, but infact the cancer; yet when anyone accomplishes something, they give god all the praise. Its almost like the abused wife syndrome
isn't believing that a big bearded man in the sky loves you and shit at least a bit of a delusion?
how being a christian is fine while saying that you've been abducted by alien is delusional?
In what sense is that so very different? They have their prophet (the Prophet of Profit maybe but that's who they choose to follow) and they are true believers. Who are you (or I or anybody else) to say they're delusional whilst Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, whoever isn't? QUOTE]
True.
Evey
It's called believing in God n being Christian. You don't justify it. You just believe or you don't. Simple.
Define "delusional" and then define "faith?" These are different things to different people. What may be delusional to you may be in fact normality to another....
Faith is the ability to believe in something without the need for evidence or facts....
Evey
I don't believe in anything that can't be detected by scientific instruments.
That's ok. That's your belief system. So would you so, then, that you are in fact atheist or agnostic?
Evey
It's called believing in God n being Christian. You don't justify it. You just believe or you don't. Simple.
Evey
I'm fairly sure if I did believe in god I would blame him for the bad things just as much as I would thank him for the good things. You've only really got god's word for it that he's a nice guy and well, he would say wouldn't he?
That hasnt really explained anything though. Could you please try to explain why Christians do this? Why would you want to take away from your achievements and say that it was all god? It seriously is just abused-wife syndrome

I'm fairly sure if I did believe in god I would blame him for the bad things just as much as I would thank him for the good things. You've only really got god's word for it that he's a nice guy and well, he would say wouldn't he?
God has his reasons for the bad things.
Which neatly brings us full circle back to ol'...
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... singing about being cold and naked when god wasnt there while making all the asian kids sit in silence down a silent corridor.