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Facebook Win

I just wanted to share a nice win on facebook. A friend of mine is having a rough time right now and posted a sad status. Right away someone stepped in with God Talk. The others are not organized atheists or anything and I was surprised to see that they shared my views.

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Permalink Reply by BecaT on February 11, 2011 at 2:11pm

wow, thats awsome. And, yes, it is insulting to hear someone say they are going to pray for you. I really think more and more people are going towards atheism or at least rejecting God and prayer, which is promising.

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Permalink Reply by damian on February 12, 2011 at 8:15pm

I still haven't joined facebook, heh heh. That string of replies rocks; it's encouraging.

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Permalink Reply by FreeThinker on February 13, 2011 at 8:09am

I got a chuckle out of this as well...

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Permalink Reply by Rachel on February 13, 2011 at 10:26am

She would not be there if there was no God? Oh like 6 million Jews in WWII? Has she not heard of that? My DOG!!!

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on February 17, 2011 at 12:21am

Even fictional characters are on facebook!

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Permalink Reply by BecaT on February 21, 2011 at 8:37am

Wow, its funny how pissy people get when you explain facts to them.

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Permalink Reply by Aggiememenon on February 13, 2011 at 5:56pm

A friend of mine from my High School class (who does mission work with her church) posted on her page recently "God Bless the Challenger Astronauts; Where were you 25 years ago when the Challenger disaster happened?"

I just rolled my eyes and simply noted how I heard about it (was at school, heard about it through word-of-mouth first, then saw the footage on TV when someone rolled a TV into the NJROTC room later in the day).

But the thought that first went through my head was "With 'blessings' like that, I'd sure hate to see his curses..."

...A more thoughtful/better educated theist might've said "God *Rest* the souls of the Challenger Astronauts" but "Bless??"

WTF? What kinda blessing is blowing them to smithereens in the upper atmosphere....??

Definite Facepalm moment at any rate.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on March 10, 2011 at 7:08pm

Blown up and instant death might have been what a merciful God would have done. But there is every indication that after the break up of the space craft that the crew cabin intact fell for just short of 3 minutes before hitting the ocean surface at +200 mph with a force of 200 g's. Since some of the emergency oxygen bottles were activated there is speculation that some of the crew was conscious for the plummet. Way to go there merciful deity. What kind of warped lesson was he trying to teach us that day.

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Permalink Reply by Eddie Cuevas on February 13, 2011 at 6:04pm

I've posted atheistic lyrics on my profile before and have lost some "friends" because of it. Oh, well.

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Permalink Reply by Lindsey S. on February 13, 2011 at 8:04pm

Wish my facebook friends were all atheists. Mine are all mormons. A religious debate probably wouldn't go so well on my wall...but yeah, major win right there.