Topic: A meme for Father Merrin
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #108,399
Please respond to the implications of the meme. Thank you.Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 24 minutes later[^] [v] #1,214,546
Oh look, the avaricious and exploitative West is blaming God for its own cynical pillaging. It's always fun when they opportunistically decide to care.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,547
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,549
@previous (A)
What is the starving child praying for? For you to stop smugly posting on an obscure internet forum and instead go help him?
What is the starving child praying for? For you to stop smugly posting on an obscure internet forum and instead go help him?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 53 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,553
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
For food. Why answer the other two but not that of the starving child?
For food. Why answer the other two but not that of the starving child?
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,558
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,560
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,561
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,562
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 11 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,598
@previous (A)
> lol never a straight answer from you
Back at ya...
@1,214,561 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
> Why are you presumimg to know exactly what the child's prayer is?
> lol never a straight answer from you
Back at ya...
@1,214,561 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
> Why are you presumimg to know exactly what the child's prayer is?
dw !p9hU6ckyqw joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,599
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
What might you pray for if you were in the child's circumstance?
What might you pray for if you were in the child's circumstance?
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,600
@previous (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
He would pray for less food, because asking for handouts is a slippery slope that leads to Communism. Self-reliance must be learned at a young age. Bless you child.
He would pray for less food, because asking for handouts is a slippery slope that leads to Communism. Self-reliance must be learned at a young age. Bless you child.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,607
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,608
@previous (E)
There's no tunnel in the image and the car and passengers and driver are not labeled, so I cannot understand what is happening in this image. Please fix these errors then repost. Thanks.
There's no tunnel in the image and the car and passengers and driver are not labeled, so I cannot understand what is happening in this image. Please fix these errors then repost. Thanks.
(Edited 14 seconds later.)
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,611
@1,214,599 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
> What might you pray for if you were in the child's circumstance?
That child looks far too young to know what praying or God is. I suppose maybe on some vague instinctual level he's wishing someone would help him. Perhaps some obese millionaire Westerner with plenty of food and money to spare.
Thus the OP's question is still predicated on baseless assumptions. We cannot know if a prayer was answered if we do not know what prayer was said, or indeed IF a prayer was even said.
> What might you pray for if you were in the child's circumstance?
That child looks far too young to know what praying or God is. I suppose maybe on some vague instinctual level he's wishing someone would help him. Perhaps some obese millionaire Westerner with plenty of food and money to spare.
Thus the OP's question is still predicated on baseless assumptions. We cannot know if a prayer was answered if we do not know what prayer was said, or indeed IF a prayer was even said.
dw joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,613
dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 3 years ago, 43 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,619
@1,214,611 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I asked what you would do if you were in the same circumstances as the child, not what you would do if you were the child
I asked what you would do if you were in the same circumstances as the child, not what you would do if you were the child
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 42 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,620
@previous (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
Actually you asked what I would "pray for", not what would I "do". But ok. If I, a grown man, were in the same circumstances as that child, I would not pray. I would try to understand how I had arrived at that situation, would assess my options for getting out of it, and would then act on one or more of those options.
Bless you for the question friend.
Actually you asked what I would "pray for", not what would I "do". But ok. If I, a grown man, were in the same circumstances as that child, I would not pray. I would try to understand how I had arrived at that situation, would assess my options for getting out of it, and would then act on one or more of those options.
Bless you for the question friend.
dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 3 years ago, 14 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,624
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,625
@previous (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
> Why wouldn't you pray?
Because I assess that what I need has already been placed within my hands. There is a time to pray and a time to act. The time depicted in that picture is very clearly the time for me, a grown man, to act.
> Why wouldn't you pray?
Because I assess that what I need has already been placed within my hands. There is a time to pray and a time to act. The time depicted in that picture is very clearly the time for me, a grown man, to act.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 2 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,636
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Do you think that, nowhere on earth in history, a starving child has prayed to God for food, and that prayer has gone unanswered?
Do you think that, nowhere on earth in history, a starving child has prayed to God for food, and that prayer has gone unanswered?
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 13 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,637
@previous (A)
> Do you think that, nowhere on earth in history, a starving child has prayed to God for food, and that prayer has gone unanswered?
Let me save us some time here. Somewhere in the world right now children are praying for help. You, apparently, are moved by this. Possibly it is God moving you to act. Yet instead of doing something to help those starving babies, you choose instead to squander vast amounts of money on expensive wine and other silly purchases.
So, yes, I think prayers go unanswered in this world, because people like you ignore them due to a belief that God is an excuse to abdicate our responsibility to those we are in a position to help. I believe your seeing that picture was God's answer to that child's prayer. That you choose to ignore God's answer and your role in it says a lot about you.
Bless you for the question friend.
> Do you think that, nowhere on earth in history, a starving child has prayed to God for food, and that prayer has gone unanswered?
Let me save us some time here. Somewhere in the world right now children are praying for help. You, apparently, are moved by this. Possibly it is God moving you to act. Yet instead of doing something to help those starving babies, you choose instead to squander vast amounts of money on expensive wine and other silly purchases.
So, yes, I think prayers go unanswered in this world, because people like you ignore them due to a belief that God is an excuse to abdicate our responsibility to those we are in a position to help. I believe your seeing that picture was God's answer to that child's prayer. That you choose to ignore God's answer and your role in it says a lot about you.
Bless you for the question friend.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,638
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
So, it seems that you are saying that God is impotent unless people answer his prayers for him? Surely an omnipotent, ever-loving God could find a way to provide food to a starving child without me personally flying across the world to give it to him or her?
So, it seems that you are saying that God is impotent unless people answer his prayers for him? Surely an omnipotent, ever-loving God could find a way to provide food to a starving child without me personally flying across the world to give it to him or her?
Anonymous E replied with this 3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,639
Wait I thought that Matt was a Catholic. Why is he insulting Christianity now?
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 34 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,640
@1,214,638 (A)
> So, it seems that you are saying that God is impotent unless people answer his prayers for him?
No, I'm saying the concern for this child that you ('re pretending to) have is God telling you to stop spending your nights getting drunk and watching porn, and do something to help. Starving children is a man-made problem with a man-made solution.
> Surely an omnipotent, ever-loving God could find a way to provide food to a starving child without me personally flying across the world to give it to him or her?
How do you know He didn't? Post a picture of that child 1 month after that photo was taken.
> So, it seems that you are saying that God is impotent unless people answer his prayers for him?
No, I'm saying the concern for this child that you ('re pretending to) have is God telling you to stop spending your nights getting drunk and watching porn, and do something to help. Starving children is a man-made problem with a man-made solution.
> Surely an omnipotent, ever-loving God could find a way to provide food to a starving child without me personally flying across the world to give it to him or her?
How do you know He didn't? Post a picture of that child 1 month after that photo was taken.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U double-posted this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,641
@1,214,639 (E)
> Wait I thought that Matt was a Catholic. Why is he insulting Christianity now?
He's drunk again. Also, he's not a Catholic. Look at the efukt thread.
> Wait I thought that Matt was a Catholic. Why is he insulting Christianity now?
He's drunk again. Also, he's not a Catholic. Look at the efukt thread.
Anonymous E replied with this 3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,642
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I didn't say he was a good Catholic but I think he's identified as one before.
I didn't say he was a good Catholic but I think he's identified as one before.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,643
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 3 years ago, 45 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,644
@1,214,641 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
> implying Catholics are not the world's biggest drinkers and porn watchers
> implying Catholics are not the world's biggest drinkers and porn watchers
Anonymous A (OP) triple-posted this 3 years ago, 59 seconds later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,645
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,647
@1,214,644 (A)
> > implying Catholics are not the world's biggest porn watchers
Nope, unsurprisingly enough that's Americans...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18187404/usa-named-most-porn-obsessed-country-worldwide/
...only 23% of whom are Catholic compared to 48% Protestant.
> > implying Catholics are not the world's biggest porn watchers
Nope, unsurprisingly enough that's Americans...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18187404/usa-named-most-porn-obsessed-country-worldwide/
...only 23% of whom are Catholic compared to 48% Protestant.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,648
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,649
Anonymous E replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,214,665
@1,214,643 (A)
That meme is obviously anti-Christian. A Christian would find a way to argue against, or at least dodge, the problem of evil. They wouldn't rub it in the face of a fellow Christian.
By the way, you know that he isn't even a priest, everyone knows that this is just Dave from Russia's weird persona. I find it bizarre that you enjoy arguing with someone who you know is just playing a character for laughs.
That meme is obviously anti-Christian. A Christian would find a way to argue against, or at least dodge, the problem of evil. They wouldn't rub it in the face of a fellow Christian.
By the way, you know that he isn't even a priest, everyone knows that this is just Dave from Russia's weird persona. I find it bizarre that you enjoy arguing with someone who you know is just playing a character for laughs.
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@1,214,679 (A)
> Yep. He eats peepee.
Would it be considered a mortal or venial sin for a priest to eat peepee?
> Yep. He eats peepee.
Would it be considered a mortal or venial sin for a priest to eat peepee?