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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a ridiculous line of reasoning that is false upon examination. What is harder:

1. You must accept and forgive, and you must come to this conclusion on your own, dealing with your roiling feelings of grief, anger at the senselessness, disbelief that the unlikely has indeed happened, questioning why bad things happen to good people, and a natural urge to exact revenge. You must deal with all of this, with no mental crutch, and realize that despite the tragedy and your suffering, that man is basically good, and that behaving as a good person means accepting the tragedy moving on. [/quote]

2. You must accept and forgive, because God has a plan and this is all a part of it. You may not understand it, but you must have faith that this is for the greater good. Your loved ones are in heaven, they are with Jesus now. Death is not permanent, this life is only a test. You'll see them again when you move on from this life to the next.

Oh I wish it was as simple as option number 2. But I am not going to surrender my intelligence just so that I can be comfortably numb.  
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Huh? You don't understand humans, human nature, or the nature of belief.

You think God just plops forgiveness and acceptance into the passive believers' brains? Or that just by chanting what you call "some mantra" or 
"a crutch" about forgiveness and acceptance and heaven, that all the pain, anger, disbelief and urges for revenge will just go away?

Don't be ridiculous.

Of course believers have to work [b]on their own[/b] deal with roiling feelings of grief, anger at the senselessness, disbelief that the unlikely has indeed happened, questioning why bad things happen to good people, and a natural urge to exact revenge. Add to this, bellievers may have to deal with the challenge to faith that OP is clearly dying to document but hasn't succeeded in doing.

Also: plenty of brillian folks believe in #2 without surrenduring their intelligence. On the other hand, your poor reasoning skills... oh, never mind.[/quote]

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