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[To a poster who explains, from personal experience, that surviving lightning is surprisingly common]How do you know Satan didn't try to kill you with lightning bolts, and God was protecting you since it wasn't your time?

Magus55, Internet Infidels 18 Comments [11/1/2003 12:00:00 AM]
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#383304
GigaGuess

Aren't the skies the domain of God?

1/17/2008 6:03:36 PM
#383353
David D.G.

More to the point, how do you know that gravity is not just an illusion? Maybe it's actually millions of tiny angels pressing down on things that keep us from flying off the planet and whirling into space. 9_9

Seriously, dude, seek medical help. NOW.


~David D.G.

1/17/2008 6:54:31 PM
#383409
Hawker Hurricane

God sure did a piss poor job of protecting him if he actually was hit by lightning.

1/17/2008 8:31:28 PM
#383459
LadyDeath


1/17/2008 9:19:21 PM
#1021445
splattaflix

riiiiight. Because everything good in life is of God, and everything bad is the work of Satan. Of course.

9/15/2009 4:53:53 PM
#1021455
mngamojemo

Yahweh is a thunder god and all, so he's the prime suspect.

9/15/2009 5:53:15 PM
#1021461
Philbert McAdamia

How do you know it wasn't god trying to level a church in Poughkeepsie and missed? He has that kind of aim, it seems.

9/15/2009 6:07:45 PM
#1032316
Tiny Jeebus

Considering that Fundamentalist Protestants are the only folks I personally know who regularly report being attacked by supernatural forces, I'd say it's a long-shot.

10/7/2009 10:13:05 AM
#1032328
Moondog

So there really are those who still believe this Medieval nonsense- that lightning isn't natural, it must be caused by an angry god.
About 10% of those who are struck by lightning are killed. Many of the survivors are left with personality changes, as it can affect the frontal lobe. About 70 people are killed by lighning every year in the United States.
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm

10/7/2009 11:36:19 AM
#1032361
preacher's kid

I thought it was Thor who flung lightning bolts around.

10/7/2009 2:17:52 PM
#1110053
Crownflame

No, it was Zeus.

2/5/2010 9:58:57 AM
#1110057
caustic gnostic

No, it was Tesla.

2/5/2010 10:12:12 AM
#1110099
Phisshy

Enel FTW!

2/5/2010 11:06:28 AM
#1214081
Allegory for Jesus

How do you know that God didn't try to kill him with lightning bolts, and modern science was protecting him because fuck God?

10/2/2010 8:46:11 PM
#1309689
Robespierre

We don't.
But your model has zero predicting power.

7/14/2011 5:46:00 PM
#1362902


Because there are natural explanations for that?

1/3/2012 2:33:43 PM
#1362911
rw23

> How do you know Satan didn't try to kill you with lightning bolts,
> and God was protecting you since it wasn't your time?

Well, it was obviously because I cast Protection From Lightning beforehand. Don't you guys also think ahead when you know you're being threatened?

Damn, after all these years I've finally succumbed to the D&D trope to respond to the fundies' belief in magic!

1/3/2012 2:57:12 PM
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Ebon

Occam's Razor called...

9/2/2012 2:27:16 AM
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